Poems

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  • Georges de la Tour! Georges de la Tour! | Metka | The Cross

    I see how you climb!
  • Sicily, 1992

    Etna’s lava shone against the gloom,
  • The Afterlife

    After life, pelicans glide above a shut- down bridge.
  • The Cricket

    You too have risen at midnight
  • Elegy for Jane

    Blue cab grapes clustered on trellis
  • SELF PORTRAIT IN THE BACKYARD AS MOTHER

    Tulip-bellied, fists full of weeds, the baby shuffles over the wet grass,
  • For Your Eighteenth Birthday

    Not a car nor papa’s advice.
  • What a Man Wants is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue

    If I had that power,
  • Widow

    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone
  • Three poems by Li Suo translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein and Henry Zhang

    the cemetery east of river bank road
  • Great Pond

    Tom swims
  • Boots and Bayonet

    My platoon a loose group cross-legged