Poems

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  • At the perennial exchange

    At the perennial exchange, you will swap half a hosta
  • Rizal Stadium, World War II

    He was almost home, poor guy.
  • In Purgatory

    Not easy.
  • Titanic

    Some of the shoes
  • Alexandru (1904 – 1984)

    You cross the hill by wagon to Românești. Airplanes stretch ropes of milk in our way not unlike the wire you’d
  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!
  • Olney Hymn

    not my li-
  • From “The Last Letter of My Body”, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher

    it’s winter here: the winter rains come, the roses bloom
  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead

    Surely she would want to hear one final song, something from the Carpathians, something folkloric about flying
  • Ars Poetica

    The dark night caught Jerome by surprise
  • From Night, by Ennio Moltedo, translated from Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz

    Can we go on like this?
  • Two Poems

    I had a teacher in a fiction writing class