Poems

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  • The Plumber is Here

    The plumber is here
  • New Home

    This house has no prehistory,
  • Guardian Angels Witness More Lives Than Yours

    You are eight years old.
  • Anti-Gravity Time Machine

    From the front stoop it’s the 21st century;
  • THE DAY

    History sings “misery, misery.”
  • Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord

    If it was a wedding instead of war,
  • Two poems by Sandra Moussempès, translated from French by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

    A house stands out from the rest of the forest, emptied of its occupants for centuries
  • MORE THAN I CAN SAY

    Clewell doesn’t exactly do haiku.
  • Apology to My Husband’s Snore

    You goosehonk, one-note oboe or contrabassoon.
  • CONGREGATION | AT LAST

    We are six strangers gathered
  • Two Poems

    To hunker
  • Husband-Watching Height

    That’s my fear, turning to stone.