Poems

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  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,
  • American Upanishad (IV)

    The I is a pillar,
  • Home Life

    I was sitting still in an armchair
  • On the Way to the Acupuncturist

    In the wrong lane, the slow one—
  • Closed Eye Vision of Independence Day

    Dazzled drunks are bent over with laughter,
  • Ana Varela Tafur translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra

    By the banks or the center of a river,
  • Template

    Any skink
  • What’s Real? | Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

    This question didn’t much interest me
  • Romanian Lessons & The Country of Leaving

    Godmother country,
  • True Bug | I Will Be Good

    I’ve been talking to a bug all winter.
  • Why the Sphinx Likes Riddles and Episodic

    What she did,
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;