Poems

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  • Two Poems

    A rectangular tray materializes, made
  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,
  • Holiday Candle

    Thank you for your kind gift
  • Wooden Boards

    My father carefully rolls his pant leg up, places his leg between two wide boards. He tells my mother to jump hard on
  • A Few Estrogen Stories to Help Balance the Scales | Beasts of Burden

    Imagine half a million Vietnamese up to their heinies slogging rice paddies for a year, and you have the salary of the
  • A Poem and Two Fables

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay,
  • Babel’s Artifacts

    The construction proved without
  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,
  • August

    Water and wind do it too
  • Berlin

    We see the public statues
  • Daniel Whipped at the Market, St. Augustine, 1849

    What makes memory?
  • Milkweed Lullaby and Radio Lullaby

    The days were endless,