Poems

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  • Trash

    Good you are trashing, my husband says, when I send him a photo
  • On Brueghel’s the Tower of Bable

    Anybody calling this scheme stupid
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • GDR CHINA | LAMB

    My housekeeper had the dishes brought
  • And This is How It Happens

    Because I have been happily
  • Spell

    Unlikely find in a thrift store’s back bin:
  • Square of Beveled Glass

    Hag––first thought.
  • Three Ghazals

    When I woke in the night, I walked to the center of the dream.
  • It Was A 3.8

    My mother said go get me a plum.
  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,
  • Bright in June Sun

    The young man, kneeling at his mother’s tomb, lays red tulips there,
  • What We Do with What We Are

    I did not get better.