Poems

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  • Dust

    You return with us to the grave,
  • Father Enters the Water | Please Mr. Wasp | Ageing

    In life, he would walk into the water slowly until it reached his waist and stand there for a while, his arms out to the
  • Relapse

    I loved bar light,
  • Great Pond

    Tom swims
  • Ars Polis

    way too human too fast way too boring too quick
  • When We Make Lifelines, the Universe Breathes a Little Easier

    When night becomes heavy, I break a hole
  • Security: A Q & A

    What was your favorite part-time job? What do you
  • Back to Brooklyn Bridge | Second Skin

    tears are intuition
  • 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,
  • End of the Century

    We’ve slept too long, and that hasn’t stopped the incidental warping—
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • The Day

    Day I didn’t blink and the day was gone.