Poems

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  • Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”

    How to say hair
  • The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

    We are as flies in a pitcher plant,
  • Letter From The Capital

    She writes: now we have wars between historical eras. We fight in time as well as space. 1914 vs. 1939 is a devastating
  • Code

    At last it's just me and the alphabet.
  • Madame Bovary, c’est moi

    If we were all as kind to each other
  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,
  • Three Poems translated from Spanish by John R. Sesgo 

    Look at it right there
  • Delilah Miklave

    You think that you know baptism
  • Four Poems

    I don’t like it
  • LATE

    The last time my father returned from work
  • Objects in Mirror Are Larger than They Appear

    That beautiful girl on a bicycle smoking a cigarette:
  • To Urania

    Astronomer who rules the tides and skies,