Poems

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  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • Cosmology

    Someone has spilled the moon
  • Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, On Freud’s Birthday [May 5] & In Vienna

    The first movement of Tchaikovsky’s
  • walls | uncertain

    one morning
  • KINDNESS DETECTOR | TRUTH IN ADVERTISING |

    It looks like a bamboo flute, but has a motor that draws air across a copper plate treated with chemicals which,
  • Angles | Bad News

    The master speaks to a tree.
  • Preludes and Fugues, Cycle C

    Watch your cat leap up in fright and flee
  • While

    While we were kissing that year, the icebergs were sleeping,
  • From The Little Book of Passage

    Ecco il fiume che mi allarga lo sguardo, che mi attraversa la fronte.
  • Nude with Pebbles

    Flowers fall.  And I noticed
  • The Tiger | Friendship  

    In a tourist magazine about the amusements of Rome,
  • On Not Translating Polish Poets

    Were it not