Poems

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  • After Ungaretti

    For the sake of argument, which
  • Regret

    Later in life, we enter the neighborhood
  • Poem in the Old Style

    At the beginning of the play Hecuba was mourning her great losses. She made lists, blamed the Gods: they could
  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting
  • Berlin

    We see the public statues
  • 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
  • David

    we wait in an arc with flashlights
  • AUDITION

    Once through an ancient stage door, past a sign
  • BUSH | SERIAL

    Warms thieves.
  • LETTERS FROM EDINBURGH

    some deluge loafing letter
  • Endecasyllabics: About the Women (Alma, Ruthie)

    The lion-maned poet holds court on our blue
  • Riddle

    The chair is not far from the bed