Poems

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  • The Fruit Bat of Taxidermy

    Whoever the taxidermist was,
  • Two Poems translated from Chinese by Liang Yujing

    Darling, the bed you left at
  • Hungarian Lesson and Snow Rapture

    In Hungary, you know something like the palm of your hand,
  • Antonio Gamoneda, from Book of the Cold (World Poetry Books, May 2022) translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez

    You smell the wet linens, your acids.
  • A Hole in My Backyard

    I get very nervous, I admit.
  • Storm Song, Monarch, Sultry Night and Galveston, 1900

    Last night heat
  • The Fourth Walk

    Among the ruined are the ruins. Rules even skies can wreck in shreds,
  • Three Poems

    Lavishly robed and turbaned, the palmist
  • Call & Response

    In this last
  • Deceiving the Gods

    The old Jews rarely admitted good fortune.
  • Ars Poetica

    The shell of the papershell pecan can easily be broken
  • GETTING READY THE HOUSE

    My friend goes to visit his grave