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  • After the War for Independence and Despite Nostalgia

    Those boys in the basement, middle-schoolers, unruly

  • Three Poems

    Being adopted means I have choices on “The Meaning of Your Name”

  • Fragments of The Sacrificial World

    Porpoises feed every morning in the shallows

  • Food of Love & Thing-in-Itself

    If the vamp and rub of planets,

  • Death Machine

    because the dead couldn’t speak

  • On Not Translating Polish Poets

    Were it not

  • ON RETREAT | POLAND SPRING MANDARIN ORANGE

    The way you reconstructed the dream was telling –

  • You Don’t Drink Wine? and I Tremble: Two poems by Rumi

    What? You don’t drink wine? Infidel, begone!

  • Higher Education and In Every Scene

    It’s hard to solve the problems of the world

  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze

  • The Mending Wall

    No one noticed as I left both the tour group

  • ON EVERY HAND A GREAT PLAIN By Henry Israeli

    Two bears tearing at a tent