Poems

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  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth
  • In God’s Intestine and Goner

    The husband, who has accepted Buddhist precepts,
  • A Brief Portfolio: Five Poems

    I found this suitcase slumped in a dark attic corner
  • GHAZAL 4

    How sullen we’ve become in the belly of the empire;
  • A Different Origin

    When the snake in Eden approached Eve
  • Molt & Clean Water Act

    Neither here nor there, you don’t fit. 
  • Happy Hour & Babies Cry at 5:03 pm

    Marcy lets us play
  • Contagions of the Visible

    In the optics of the dark ages, the eye
  • The Dragonfly

    Diamond-crusted wings flying an armored syringe
  • From AfterTalk

    Dumuzi spoke: “My sister, I would go with you to my garden
  • Borges at Dolphin Books: New Orleans, 1982

    He props his cane between Maps & True Crime,
  • Remedios Varo’s Locomotion Capilar (1959)

    Riding the bicycles of their beards,