Poems

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  • Two Poems

    Where does it live?
  • More Nights Than Days and Turn It Up

    At the end of my street, they cut the trees.
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • Resumé

    Families shame you;
  • Lüneburg Station, April 30, 1976

    It’s 5:45 am, sleepy car-landscape
  • Where Birds Sleep 

    It goes down and the birds go to sleep.
  • Honor Guard

    Who does this body
  • Three poems by Nadia Mifsud translated from Maltese by Miriam Calleja

    abracadabresque this silence spreading sorrow
  • The Widow at Point Reyes and Broncoscopy

    She sat for an hour watching 10,000 tiny silver fish
  • In Which the Sea Rakes at My Window and Seemingly Unlike Me

    and I wake rattled, as if to resist a long fall
  • A Brief Portfolio

    Not built to just do it
  • Three More Claims to Fame

    Claim to Fame #7 :  Early Boyfriend