Poems

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  • The Night Dancers

    Praise the shadows that slither up candlelit walls
  • Poem Beginning with a Line from Levis

    As if we’re put on the earth to forget the ending,
  • Leprechaun

    The old woman next door would appear in
  • Father and Analysand

    Shy in houndstooth, white hair and a smoke
  • Necromancy

    Squeeze the shadow.
  • Note to Thomas Stearns Eliot

    I just dared to eat
  • Separation

    Slumbering suburbs, calm depths of summer.
  • from Nothing in the Dark

    My mother would assuage my childhood night-fears by saying There's nothing in the dark that you can't see during
  • Two poems by Sandra Moussempès, translated from French by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

    A house stands out from the rest of the forest, emptied of its occupants for centuries
  • Ten Days After the Dobbs Decision

    The possum loped into view, pouch dragging slow
  • The Night Was Born

    This night was born in an old and dust-filled pantry, and yesterday’s – in the
  • Two Poems

    You’d think somebody would’ve put those six