Poems

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  • Three Poems translated from Argentinian Spanish by Lorena Wolfman

    Entering the house from the back without letting anyone know,
  • On History

    His father’s boss was a Millerite—
  • What is Pleasure

    The supreme pleasure of love
  • Apology to My Husband’s Snore

    You goosehonk, one-note oboe or contrabassoon.
  • Disseminate

    Plums to the Garden of Eden. Their flesh
  • How I Felt the First Time I Tried It

    Like a clam’s tongue muscling
  • The Podium

    He is bilious, potty-mouthed, at once puffy and rachitic. He sways, eyes red and rheumy as September strawberries.
  • How to Get Divorced

    STEP 1: For 20 years, swallow everything. Eat until you are the heaviest pillow on the
  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine
  • Three poems from Kembang Kertas (Balinese for bougainvillea) in Filipino and Kinaray-a

    Here, we are told
  • ONLY BEES BUZZ IN THE MEADOW | ALLEGIANCE

    Speech a tremble,
  • Widow

    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone