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Poems

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  • Holiday Candle

    Thank you for your kind gift

  • Mari Küla and Mari Meli

    Manuela Colipe Benavente breathes in the sun so that she can sleep.

  • Guardian Angels Witness More Lives Than Yours

    You are eight years old.

  • In Waterplace Park on Our 15th Anniversary

    I’m waiting for you on the bank of the river,

  • Apology to My Husband’s Snore

    You goosehonk, one-note oboe or contrabassoon.

  • To Fire

    In my backyard, huddled over my magnifying

  • “Recipe for Indifference” translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

    We saw them, hungry, and spoke

  • Proof of Poetry

    I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter

  • Revolver

    His face was a festival.  Inside it,

  • Things I’ve Discovered in Hong Kong

    Semantics: clue that Trappist Dairy Milk Drink is not milk—had I read the label—

  • Her Stairs

    Yesterday upon the stair

  • The Little Engine

    He is not an engine that could. Busted up, broken and backward, call him “fucked-up,”