Poems

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  • Dead Tree in the Back Yard & Gait

    You aren’t mine. A lot line
  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,
  • In a Valley & Theorems of Reason

    Hello to the theorems of reason, hidden
  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors
  • Honey

    Strange music of our Emily —
  • Transport | Gdańsk

    Today, a simple bowl of onion soup
  • Godscan

    The sun is the size of a human foot.
  • The Sudden Walk

    When evening comes to find you still
  • The Movie My Murderer Makes

    My murderer sits in row F, seat 3, just behind my wife and me, in row E, seats 3 and 4.
  • The Albino Squirrel

    Bury it, I said.  In the field.  No,
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • Vita Nova

    Born on the outskirts of the Romanian kingdom