Poems

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  • Ghazal with Bread

    how many summers apart from you, in search of bread
  • Elephant Memory

    A cold sunny morning in Cambridge. Pragmatical
  • The Excellent Trip

    You thought you’d need a month. You thought you’d need
  • Hanger

    You needed one
  • To a High Aircraft | Palazzo Maldura

    While now by slow degrees
  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!
  • The Unmet Lover

    Once I saw you in a freight elevator
  • JANUARY

    This longing for him the choke in my throat again —
  • Sky

    What you draw as a blue stripe high above
  • Masque

    Lamplight blue cushions
  • From “The Last Letter of My Body”, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher

    it’s winter here: the winter rains come, the roses bloom
  • Things I’ve Discovered in Hong Kong

    Semantics: clue that Trappist Dairy Milk Drink is not milk—had I read the label—