Poems

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  • For Night to Fall

    You could tell from the start that the best
  • On Sadness | On Beauty

    I noticed something strange and beautiful about the word “sad.”
  • Bystander Effect, Permanence and Weapon

    Your weapon is an eraser.
  • One of a Series

    My daughter sees the sky from another angle, slate-blue reflected in a lake called living. 
  • Gott im Himmel and The Corner of Bellington Street and Sparta

    Gott was thicket, thorned, glottal,
  • Two Poems

    the way a kitchen’s dirty washcloth
  • Comet

    You once filled my night sky.
  • Will flames lap? Leap? | The Country Stairs

    Will flames lap? Leap?
  • Elevator Boy

    All night I lifted them through seven stories
  • I was trying to weigh darkness

    I was trying to weigh darkness how much does darkness weigh
  • Two poems by Adélia Prado (from Miserere) translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

    On what might be called a street,
  • Morgellons

    Jorge Luis Borges translated Thomas Browne