Poems

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  • Rune

    Not timber or bronze or iridium, not the old habits of species at a waterhole or the short
  • Valediction in Guatemala

    We say goodbye in front
  • Poetry: A Mirror, a Pencil and an Envelope. Seven Minutes with D. Nurkse and Nancy Mitchell

    In this candid interview, D. Nurkse reflects on a long life in poetry and political activism
  • Polar Bear & Memento Mori: Stradivarius

    I am relieved. For twenty-seven years,
  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention
  • Ode to Scars

    The scars on others’ faces draw me to them.
  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write
  • Toys

    Your toys, my child, hold them dear,
  • Sicily, 1992

    Etna’s lava shone against the gloom,
  • The Beautiful Hand

    Not a word.
  • Almost Lost Moment

    coming back in an incidental way,
  • Embryo

    All morning, pitting the apricots