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  • A Story About Vietnam and Alexi Santana

    In a tiled bathroom stall, one chapter per tile,
  • Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling

    Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling   The nights when you practice tenderness, the air like a skin around the words. On top of the crest: the dripping udder, red currant breast, rowanberry blood, and the blush of the apples. The sun is leaping in Leo and Virgo. Such is the month of harvest,

  • ELEGY WITH FULL DRESS BLUES

    Early in our marriage I would stand
  • Two Poems

    I could never say anything about my father
  • Charade

    I was thinking of the sad
  • Flowers in a Vase

    The dahlias' unopened buds poke like periscopes above their clownish mass
  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!
  • ABC Minors

    Painted in oils on wood, the entire composition
  • Gonzalez-Torres at the Solstice and Why they Revere the Alcoholic Neighbor

    Everyone guzzled what light there was leftover,
  • My Courbet, by Jonathan Galassi

    My Courbet
  • The Barricade

    The barricade measures two meters high and twelve meters wide
  • Notes on a 39-Year-Old Body

    Most internal organs jiggle and glow and are rosy