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  • Seven Minutes with Mary Halvorson: Poetry and Jazz, Hand in Hand

    Artlessly falling through overstretched arms delivers the night underground, a hole

  • Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

    On the periodic table, it is the densest of elements. It does not refract or reflect, but absorbs all

  • The Gaping Trellis

    Cigarette burns on drab naugahyde

  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain

  • Toys

    Your toys, my child, hold them dear,

  • From “Underworlds”

    Hell of an exit,

  • Loosestrife

    The cities changed hands. In the course

  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting

  • A Brief Portfolio

    have heard through some trembling of their web

  • Electric Eyes of Night

    Three lanterns fill your window with deception.

  • Carpe Diem

    You won't live

  • Elegy for a Young Garden

    Shattered bricks, flayed sockets