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  • No use

    On October 21, 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote one poem that became two.

  • Five Poems

    Trembles on a wall,

  • Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines

    Sea otters sun themselves on harbor rocks,

  • Human Condition

    The human condition isn’t some grinning

  • His Side

    Easy now to stand on a bluff and see

  • Babel’s Artifacts

    The construction proved without

  • KINDNESS DETECTOR | TRUTH IN ADVERTISING

    It looks like a bamboo flute, but has a motor that draws air across a copper plate treated with chemicals which,

  • Portrait of My Father as a Snake

    I was dead. The hospital around me

  • Guardian Angels Witness More Lives Than Yours

    You are eight years old.

  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not

  • Diptych

    I’m hammering nails into the stretchers,

  • Imaginary Conversation | In the Orchard

    You tell me to live each day