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  • Fatherless Daughters

    In Springtime, abandoned daughters burst like myopic butterflies with binoculars

  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not

  • Lost Leaders

    Some say that predatory sin was born of ignorance rather than

  • The Walk-Through Heart & The Odyssey of Yes

    my mother lived in a handmade cage

  • Morning Hunger

    Why not in the icy clarity of morning,

  • GDR CHINA | LAMB

    My housekeeper had the dishes brought

  • Two Poems

    My brain is such a bully—wash your face, comb your hair,

  • My Obituary

    Will it merit a full column in The Post or The Times

  • Plume

    The old wheelbarrow aimed like a cannon

  • Poem for Shang Qin

    I’ve been digging my way toward you since the day I was born. I watch the

  • THE COURTING

    In every dark jazz club, in each smoky corner

  • Poet’s Walk, Central Park Mall

    Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Fitz-Greene Halleck