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  • A Brief Portfolio

    I said goodbye to a friend who left a hole filled

  • Rembrandt and the Great Drought

    Before your birth, of course, the drought

  • ON THE RMS QUEEN MARY | LATENT IMAGE

    I'm exploring the decks, the ship docked in Long Beach since '67. Same liner Mom sailed in '39 from England to

  • Ode to Cabeza de Vaca

    What good is it to see for miles and miles,

  • AT THE SLEEP CLINIC

    I sat in the parking lot of the sleep clinic

  • Labyrinth (Lear)

    A poorly timed abdication. A madness

  • Two poems by Katja Gorečan (from The Sufferings of Young Hana /Trpljenje mlade Hane) translated from Slovenian by Martha Kosir

    hana likes to sit on the balcony when it rains.

  • On Not Translating Polish Poets

    Were it not

  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,

  • SHALL BEAR UPON HIS SHOULDER IN THE TWILIGHT

    Reaching from history, that alpenglow, towards the dead whose clothes I wear

  • Fret Not

    Opening the door for the first time since

  • SENTIMENTAL CONVERSATION

    In an ancient park, isolated and icy,