Poems

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  • Slowly But Not Too Much and When Your Lover Leaves You

    as if making your way through an alphabet
  • Twelve Wings & Mother of the Holy Hope

    It was difficult to get a nurse.
  • Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg

    George Seferis, Two Poems,  translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg     Holy Saturday   Tomorrow, the brilliant light of Easter. It will rain, but at least we won’t be in the office. The lambs, in the oven, remind me of a huge nursery.   Korce, Albania 5.1.1937     Μεγάλο Σάββατο   Αύριο Λαμπρή. Βρέχει αλλά δε

  • Oxygen & Waking to 1939, I Study Those Standing

    I’m sorry my mother got a blood clot in her lung
  • Life Pig

    The hams the hocks the oddly delicate
  • ON EMPATHY

    Wary of the verb  “empathize”—together with its noun “empathy” and adjective
  • Two Poems

    I had a teacher in a fiction writing class
  • A Heresy Sublime

    An artist whom I’ve met is Dürer,
  • Old, Two, Not, Wrote

    letters to an old poet
  • Mirror of the Invisible World

    The crown of a milk tooth in a curve of jaw
  • The Window Light, The Dead Boy Isn’t Dad & The Window Light Again

    Painting around the windowsill
  • Comet

    You once filled my night sky.