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  • In the Vestibule

    The in-between is queasy

  • Soup Teachers

    we called them, the women who stood behind

  • The Suicide’s Wife

    inhabits an invisible island

  • Pier

    If the pier is two hundred and fifty words long, it is important

  • Three poems from Kembang Kertas (Balinese for bougainvillea) in Filipino and Kinaray-a

    Here, we are told

  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.

  • Naked City

    Apprehended in Herald Square carrying the head of his sister-in-law

  • “Bird or Old Man” translated from Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova 

    He arrived with a bag full of fog.

  • THE INVENTION OF FIRE

    In “Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland,” dated to 1585, three women lie on a large pyre watched by a circle of men.

  • The Bird that Begins it

    In the world-famous night which is already flinging away bits of dark but not

  • Callas Poems

    She whom you seek is not here!

  • How to Pray

    Falling down on your knees is the easy part, like drinking