Poems

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  • Trás-Os-Montes

    Tiny and bent over
  • Mother of Invention | The Butcher Coat

    Who first fashioned fishnet stocking
  • Love Talk | On the Way to the Casinos

    What the boy heard his older sister say—
  • Dolls

    The dolls wait for the children  
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • For the Dead Union

    After summer rain, the old-growth forest
  • Lightning Streak of White

    Black streets, black sky with orchid clouds.
  • Dear American Amnesia

    I know you are only trying to make
  • Fifteen Essays on Boats, Boats, Language, and the SS

    The Palermo Airport is not large.
  • SHE-POETS CENTO

    Femininity is a sickness.  I open my eyes.
  • Honest Orbit

    For weeks I sift in vast exits
  • For the Child Molester

    Let him sleep right through it—