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  • Ars Poetica

    The shell of the papershell pecan can easily be broken

  • Lichen Prospectus

    Specimen leaves sung down for pages

  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • Lives of the Postmodern Poets

    You were born too late.

  • Two Views of Bercy

    It seems that the sun has stopped and will move no more

  • Me Showering

    I am showering, which isn’t much in itself

  • Tiger Story

    Somewhere during my first or second year a tiger came into my life

  • The Cricket

    You too have risen at midnight

  • DERRIÈRE LE MUR ANTI-BRUIT/PROMENADES EN ÎLE-DE-FRANCE by Chantal Bizzini translated by J. Bradford Anderson

    Pourquoi le rez-de-chaussée

  • Before | Ode to Late Autumn, Auvillar

    The American poet died of head trauma

  • This Is the Day the Lord Has Made

    This is the day the Lord has made,