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  • We Came This Way to Know the Evening

    Here’s a riddle:

  • Houses

    Under the cold light of the chintzy white crown chandelier, I’d lean one upright card again

  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—

  • The Conscious Fruit Fly

    This means fruit fly the scholar.

  • “October, and the sun burnishes”

    October, and the sun burnishes the leaves so brightly you

  • Human Condition

    The human condition isn’t some grinning

  • A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems

    The pond flattered the foliage,

  • Cassandra

    Some days I could go quietly into the spot where

  • Butchering the Ram | James Cameron Descends into Lake Baikal

    And while traveling the transcendental path of non-violence,

  • Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus | I’m sure some animals negotiate and plea.  I’m sure there’s a hard winter’s compromise | Lou Reed sings “Berlin,” a voice that has in it paradise if paradise was broken

    Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus

  • About Tea translated from Czech by Stephan Delbos

    before we set out let’s promise each other

  • Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”

    How to say hair