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  • Edna St. Vincent, M.F.A.

    Chic and petite, blind to her destiny

  • Fake Lemon Tree on a November Day in a Boat Depot in Chelsea

    O lemon tree, how you emerge, distinct from everything

  • THE HEAD TRANSPLANT

    They walk in and out of the room,

  • Three Poems

    Typos   Word instead of wood but, sodden, it smoked when it burned. I wrote god for good who was, once–– in my childhood years, crowned with the nimbus of that capital G–– but now tends to be a placeholder for nightmare, tears. Seeking solace in the pastoral, but grove came out as grave and the lymph nodes, irradiated, naked

  • Wrapped in Paper and String

    Monsters crawl in our brains,

  • Seventh Circle

    And after the fight the moment of awakening

  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not

  • Leprechaun

    The old woman next door would appear in

  • [There was the way his mother]

    There was the way his mother called him baby-faced that made me defensive.

  • THE COURTING

    In every dark jazz club, in each smoky corner

  • Three Poems

    It was a beauty, made by the Hmong in Laos

  • Crazy Hairdo, Crazier Head | Some Things to Consider Before We Proceed

    Spector pinned down twins LaFlora and LaFauna like butterflies, trimmed their