Poems

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  • THE OMEN IN WOMEN

    It is only playing Words With Friend
  • Poem of the Quotidian

    Night falls so swiftly in this part of town
  • Three poems from Kembang Kertas (Balinese for bougainvillea) in Filipino and Kinaray-a

    Here, we are told
  • Nurse at a Bus Stop

    The slow traffic takes a good long look.
  • Disseminate

    Plums to the Garden of Eden. Their flesh
  • I’m Going to Bed When You Go to Bed

    Let someone else learn the borders of every country’s will,
  • Mr. Palomar’s Wave

    A long time ago, I went with my aunt to hear
  • Once We Were

    once we were immigrants
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--
  • An Intimate Moment of Protestant Despair Witnessed on the Four O’ Clock Train

    He put down his Wall Street Journal,
  • OLD LOVE LETTERS

    I too have my stack