Poems

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  • Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated from Hebrew by Rachel Neve-Midbar

    I am not holding a mirage
  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,
  • On Thumbing Through Smith’s Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation

    And what of the bird-headed dwarfs
  • Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules

    A power in proximity to terror, the lower middle-class sublime of a car’s back seat,
  • Cigar Box Banjo

    Blind Willie Johnson could coax
  • Ayotzinapa

    We bite the shadow
  • The gift of putting something down…

    The gift of putting something down, he had yet to discover it--letting it slide from his grip.
  • Bad Harvest

    Does my name take your tongue’s
  • The Triumphs of 1974 & A Self-Guided Tour of Machu Picchu, OR Please, Sir/Madam, Step Away from the Edge of the Abyss

    Moneyless, we moved to Cali,
  • Market Day

    Python belt on my jeans.
  • My Shame & Sanctuary

    At first that howl suggests an overbearing parent
  • N27P23 (2/2/14) | N27P26   (2/7/14) | N27P29   (2/9/14)

    suddenly here