Poems

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  • Seven Minutes with Afaa Weaver and Nancy Mitchell

    Were it not for his silver hair
  • Two Stages

    The traveler was certainly sleep-logged when he slipped away from his hotel at sunrise
  • Plume

    The old wheelbarrow aimed like a cannon
  • How to Get Divorced

    STEP 1: For 20 years, swallow everything. Eat until you are the heaviest pillow on the
  • Phoenix Hairpin Terrace

    Yes                              Feng-huang plus three syllables
  • WHEN EVENING COMES

    Everyone here has so many faces,
  • Three poems from Kembang Kertas (Balinese for bougainvillea) in Filipino and Kinaray-a

    Here, we are told
  • Scales

    I’m off in sixteen different directions
  • The Caravaggio Room

    Yuck, you heave in front of that sick boy
  • Ode to Cabeza de Vaca

    What good is it to see for miles and miles,
  • Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord

    If it was a wedding instead of war,
  • A Toy Airplane

    The tumor