Poems

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  • The Village Crow

    The village crow knew everything—
  • The Deposition

    I get to school early, take down the crucifix.
  • Four Poems

    The word for light is light
  • Two poems by Silvia Guerra, translated from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas

    Pray gather me, Anemone
  • Elegy

    The floor is littered with clothes I once wore
  • WHO did the blue school

    who bruised the wound
  • Curriculum Vitae | Ode to Silo City

    I’ll keep the ululating
  • Fish Belly Poem and a poem by Wang Yuyang translated by Arthur Sze

    Dr. Xia Kejun said today:
  • Posthumous Cabin

    And got away to it, and left the work to others
  • Not the Way it Was

    Today I overheard a conversation
  • The Mind Sliding

    around inside the scene:
  • Discoveries

    What I knew about