Poems

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  • Posthumous Cabin

    And got away to it, and left the work to others
  • Skin and Arioso

    I am sending off my blood for the story of who I am.
  • After the Invention of Polystyrene a Ligurian Goat Crosses the Equator

    Abut in a tailspin, mad spark
  • “Dispatches from Terra Incognita”

    Saturday, cold as a witch’s you know what. I’m at the Lab to give a urine sample.
  • Why I Haven’t “Outgrown Surrealism,” No Matter What That Moron Reviewer Wrote

    I still love the sound of breaking,
  • BUD

    Five years of nothing. Then, one night she calls
  • Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring

    The cyclist who’s rushing for the usual gold
  • The Killing

    While Abraham binds his son’s hands,
  • Ana Varela Tafur translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra

    By the banks or the center of a river,
  • The Village Crow

    The village crow knew everything—
  • Halloween

    It is as quiet as the death of the dead no one knows
  • Holy Day

    A holy day