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,”