Poems

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  • Nothing You Can Do Will Save You

    The Buddha had his river, just for now this one is mine,
  • Picasso & Dora Maar (1942)

    Four decades I have lived among the French
  • Showering Behind the Zodiac’s Curtain

    When blue hangs around me, I am
  • Two poems by Katja Gorečan (from The Sufferings of Young Hana /Trpljenje mlade Hane) translated from Slovenian by Martha Kosir

    hana likes to sit on the balcony when it rains.
  • The Drowned and the Saved

    If all of us were to try to kill ourselves at least once, then all of us would know nothing more than that: which is why
  • Venice is Sinking | Window Shopping

    Venice is sinking, Signora. Look –
  • Nail tr. by Anita Gopalan

    A piece of heart that doesn’t pain on breaking
  • After Our Parents Get Divorced, Our Mother Buys an Ivy Stencil

    In the small white bedroom
  • Miss Favour, or Dear rsmith@gmail.org

    Hello Dearest, My name is Miss Favour,
  • Dog in the Manger

    As if you’d keep your bones from other dogs
  • Barn Red

    Home alone, I swirl on scarlet lipstick and forget that I did,
  • No Touch and Elder in a Garden

    I'm fed up with farewells.