Poems

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  • Natural History of the Soul

    The song thrush hops, runs, stands,
  • Seven Minutes with Mary Halvorson: Poetry and Jazz, Hand in Hand

    Artlessly falling through overstretched arms delivers the night underground, a hole
  • Lobsters | Turkey Vultures

    In the depths of the sea they will eat the sea and outgrow the world’s largest pot.
  • The Lost Explorers

    Give me the lost explorers, the last-seens,
  • Two Poems

    My old man praised himself for not being
  • Letters from Earth & Sky

    The petals
  • David

    we wait in an arc with flashlights
  • Three Poems

    Fish-shaped, dark brown,
  • On Lust

    I've outlived lust, or think I have.
  • Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky

    There’s now a so-so year for you: 1933—
  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine
  • Inauguration Day

    Yes, like thousands of joyful poets today