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  • Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg

    George Seferis, Two Poems,  translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg     Holy Saturday   Tomorrow, the brilliant light of Easter. It will rain, but at least we won’t be in the office. The lambs, in the oven, remind me of a huge nursery.   Korce, Albania 5.1.1937     Μεγάλο Σάββατο   Αύριο Λαμπρή. Βρέχει αλλά δε

  • Three Ghazals

    When I woke in the night, I walked to the center of the dream.
  • Wartime Pantoum

    Were the mountain women sold as slaves
  • Tolstoi Learned to Ride a Bike at an Age When Most of Us Cash in Chips by Annette Barnes & Stuart Friebert

    There we were, watching the parade, while he climbed up
  • The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor understands
  • Sometimes,

    I’ll crumple the paper before beginning to write
  • Winter Morning and Ceci n’est pas un pot

    I can easily imagine someone always doubting before he opened his front door whether
  • Half of Life

    The land with yellow pears
  • The Magician and HER

    This is how you peel back layers of bees
  • Aperol-Spritz | Padua

    Across the river from the Grossmünster
  • I’m Not Waiting and Out of the Past

    I’m no longer waiting for the dunes of Tulum,
  • All the Shrimp I Can Eat

    They are swimming away from me at the speed of light