Poems

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  • 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
  • Seventh Circle

    And after the fight the moment of awakening
  • The Gifts

    The closet where the black sweaters hang. Where the game of backgammon is played
  • One and a Half Poems

    Well it began with a microburst from the North when the moon
  • THE LEAVES HAVE NO PITY

    gathering under the porch like abandoned promises,
  • A Prayer

    Praise the scent of wood
  • Portrait | The Traveler

    Recollections of my infancy: a patio in Seville,
  • Relapse

    I loved bar light,
  • Who Will Plant the Seeds of Svalbard and Orchard Fruit: Grafting

    as far north you go     as night you go night 
  • Undelivered letter from the Rev. Charles Smale to The Times, 1874 | Xiuhmolpilli, or The Binding of the Years, November 1507*

    We have spent too long debating Darwin in these pages
  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught
  • Three Poems from “Where Are the Trees Going”

    Inhabited uninhabited house subject to the air’s structure