Poems

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  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”
  • Old Man Swimming

    When the Old Man of the Sea shapeshifting on the bottom
  • An Island

    Toward the end of the island
  • Slowly But Not Too Much and When Your Lover Leaves You

    as if making your way through an alphabet
  • The Bird that Begins it

    In the world-famous night which is already flinging away bits of dark but not
  • Zone 

    This ancient world finally leaves you weary
  • POSTCARD

    always the dark body hewn asunder; always
  • The Etymology of “Alaasa” [علاسة]

    In 2006, the word
  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe
  • BETRAYAL—ORANGES AND APPLES | EEE EQUALS EMCEE SQUARED

    I am a plastic tree, naturally
  • One for André Breton

    Always for the first time
  • On Clitocybe Nuda | On Oysters

    Peak of autumn’s deepening yellow