Poems

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  • Happy Hour

    I wasn’t supposed to touch the two glazed ceramic turtles
  • ON PAINTING THE SISTINE CHAPEL: MICHELANGELO TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA

    This damn job’s given me a goiter –
  • [from the volume 4 A.M. Domestic Cantos, Casa de editură Max Blecher, 2015]

    There will be people and they will push the world further.
  • The Just Measure and Eels

    I stay here on the balcony after the rain, peering at the sky of a rocky landscape,
  • Norumbega Park

    They used to say the name was Viking
  • Don’t Pick the Cherries Yet

    Don’t pick the cherries yet—
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • The End

    Whatever is coming is the end, but not really.
  • “Summer with Monika” translated from Polish by Scotia Gilroy

    we spent the days lying on the hot asphalt, fleeing
  • Fake Lemon Tree on a November Day in a Boat Depot in Chelsea

    O lemon tree, how you emerge, distinct from everything
  • Brasserie and An Annunciation of Blue

    We’re somehow in Closerie des Lilas,
  • A Nun to be Named

    I’ve been thinking about the nun who wouldn’t let me pee in fifth grade.