Poems

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  • The End

    Whatever is coming is the end, but not really.
  • The Rainbow Sign, The Shirt and After All

    God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
  • Home

    Those last days in Hollywood—
  • Imaginary Conversation | In the Orchard

    You tell me to live each day
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • The Just Measure and Eels

    I stay here on the balcony after the rain, peering at the sky of a rocky landscape,
  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine
  • All That Evening

    You woke slowly
  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--
  • Family Once Removed and Who Cooks for You?

    I like to be alone
  • Who Pays

    Lord I have eaten and I don’t
  • Odyssey to the Self: Seven Minutes with Susan Rich and Nancy Mitchell

    When my mother took out the small skillet, black and flecked