Poems

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  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle
  • Sometimes,

    I’ll crumple the paper before beginning to write
  • He Was Amazed

    He was amazed by the curve of his life. What he thought unique had made its arc like any other, as if life had
  • “The Walnut and Honey Cookies” translated from Romanian by Clara Burghelea

    I am a Kurdish refugee who, for over a decade,
  • How to Pray

    Falling down on your knees is the easy part, like drinking
  • It Happened at Wind Sings, Trees Whisper Farm

    The wind, broken and wild,
  • Poem of the Quotidian

    Night falls so swiftly in this part of town
  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth
  • Another Argument with Jim About the Soul

    You say I’d know it exists if
  • Naked City

    Apprehended in Herald Square carrying the head of his sister-in-law
  • On Lust

    I've outlived lust, or think I have.
  • Barrage Balloons, Buck Alec, Bird Flu and You

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,