Poems

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  • Club X

    Between the gaping double-doors of Club-X and two leather thugs,
  • The City translated by Kaveh Bassiri

    I dream the city is flying in an airplane
  • Dark Enough

    I found her long black coat
  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,
  • What is Love in Tennis, and What is Love | Nude from Here to Eternity

    If there’s personality in how you jump, then I wonder about
  • LIMESTONE GHAZAL

    My windowsill’s lined with fossils, whorled limestone
  • Heroic Register

    I imagine a bed in the middle of a room.
  • Three poems translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk

    At night we stood together on guard,
  • Tenderly

    I see how you climb!
  • To Anything at All

    Our father who is neither ours nor a father but farther and nearer,
  • Gott im Himmel and The Corner of Bellington Street and Sparta

    Gott was thicket, thorned, glottal,
  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.