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  • Ana Varela Tafur translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra

    By the banks or the center of a river,

  • Salons

    Your friends are all sitting

  • Earth, Temple, Gods

    A woman's feet, in lace-up sandals made of stone.

  • Liquidation

    Final closeout, clearance sale, you said:

  • OVER THE MOON

    Five a.m.—the soft percussion of the rain

  • Where Birds Sleep 

    It goes down and the birds go to sleep.

  • Poem with Ginger in it

    This rough hooked lump, this botched

  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • Three Poems Translated by Brian Henry

    I’m not my own bacterium,

  • To Anything at All

    Our father who is neither ours nor a father but farther and nearer,

  • The Age of the Onion

    The onion is a Book of Revelations, diced to proverb-size.

  • The Dolls’ House Mysteries

    A woman lies so tidily