Poems

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  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting
  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, darkening in maple shade.
  • In Waterplace Park on Our 15th Anniversary

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

    The maker never uses thread
  • Regular Arithmetic

    My sister says, all men are insecure,
  • A Brief Portfolio

    have heard through some trembling of their web
  • Poems ‘From Ruins and Other Poems’ translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine

    Something awakens amputated.
  • “Dispatches from Terra Incognita”

    Saturday, cold as a witch’s you know what. I’m at the Lab to give a urine sample.
  • Car le Vice by Tomaž Šalamun translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

    Car le Vice, rongeant ma native noblesse
  • Tom’s Sublet and Without Longing, What?

    Once, a long time ago in Rome, I was bathed
  • Anthem and Under the Sun

    Through the backyard of a shuttered home
  • Last Poem

    Reader, today