Poems

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  • The Departure | The Screamer

    Farewell my pond and all my many doves
  • Kneeling in a Pile of Leaves

    Kneeling in a pile of leaves
  • when it is time

    you pass that bridge
  • THE INVENTION OF FIRE

    In “Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland,” dated to 1585, three women lie on a large pyre watched by a circle of men.
  • Two poems translated from the Ukrainian by Jessica Zychowicz & Cecilia Woloch

    As I was exiting with the baby stroller
  • BORN ON

    The twelfth of July, like Neruda, wouldn’t
  • Letter From The Capital

    She writes: now we have wars between historical eras. We fight in time as well as space. 1914 vs. 1939 is a devastating
  • Communion

    Yes, I will take home the meeting bread,
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • Food of Love & Thing-in-Itself

    If the vamp and rub of planets,
  • Jerez translated from Spanish by Susan Ayres

    Perhaps his hand was not so cold
  • Else

    At the first instance, to amuse others,