Poems

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  • Antonio Gamoneda, from Book of the Cold (World Poetry Books, May 2022) translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez

    You smell the wet linens, your acids.
  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--
  • Pentimento

    Meet me by the shadows & ponds of light where
  • Monk’s Eye, #20

    Of all rhythms he found day and night
  • The Path of Non-Attachment

    Andrew totaled my car, leveled the house,
  • Little Night Owl

    For hours I’d lug her on my shoulder,
  • 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.
  • Home

    Those last days in Hollywood—
  • Eating the Madeleine

    I remember the scut of it:
  • From a Bench at MOMA

    Don’t wanna, don’t wanna,
  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,
  • Human Condition

    The human condition isn’t some grinning