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  • Old Lithographed Landscape & Woolgathering

    A causeway wavers all the tilted days

  • Dust

    You return with us to the grave,

  • Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus | I’m sure some animals negotiate and plea.  I’m sure there’s a hard winter’s compromise | Lou Reed sings “Berlin,” a voice that has in it paradise if paradise was broken

    Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus

  • Family Once Removed and Who Cooks for You?

    I like to be alone

  • Two poems by Katja Gorečan (from The Sufferings of Young Hana /Trpljenje mlade Hane) translated from Slovenian by Martha Kosir

    hana likes to sit on the balcony when it rains.

  • Ebbtide

    He said one day when we are old, we—

  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a

  • Moisei Fishbein translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

    During the war and for some time after the war

  • Reality Check

    The orgasm likes the dusk best, the time of day

  • The Names

    My student Natasha, who is Greek but is now living in Turkey,

  • The Window & On Turning 79

    I check the den window a few times each day

  • Her Stairs

    Yesterday upon the stair