Poems

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  • Perfect Air

    Put book down
  • Bartosz Konstrat translated from Polish by Dawid Mobolaji

    Suddenly: bam! The little boys rise from their knees, their teeth grow and begin to bite.
  • Rome/Glasgow: Early March

    Our favorite time to visit—cool air for all-day walking, in
  • Two Poems translated from the Faroese by Randi Ward

    The first time I was in London,
  • Micah

    For a moment I was on trial
  • Charade

    I was thinking of the sad
  • Yes

    Yes, all things of water and our days rounded with light, yes,
  • Alexandru (1904 – 1984)

    You cross the hill by wagon to Românești. Airplanes stretch ropes of milk in our way not unlike the wire you’d
  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon
  • Seventh Circle

    And after the fight the moment of awakening
  • Two Poems

    The sky spills a certain sadness after sunset,
  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The