Poems

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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