Poems

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  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,
  • Lava Lakes and Petrified Forests in the Afterlife

    I watched a roomful of faces exert effort to remain unrevealed
  • Wrapped in Paper and String

    Monsters crawl in our brains,
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • The Labors of Psyche

    Because I could not not-know any longer I held the lamp over him
  • The Last Phonebooth

    The last phone booth on the planet smells
  • Transfer

    Now they tell us
  • Amaryllis

    Like the bell of an old Victrola,
  • I was trying to weigh darkness

    I was trying to weigh darkness how much does darkness weigh
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • By the Numbers

    The number of times intuition told me I had dodge
  • Stone Arabia

    The horses bisect the field