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  • The Birthdays of the Dead

    It is an affront in their land

  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,

  • Stammer  (2 pp)

    Was I hatched from an egg, fostered by birds

  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth

  • Same Screen

    Every summer the students at the Bread Loaf School of English

  • Fatherless Daughters

    In Springtime, abandoned daughters burst like myopic butterflies with binoculars

  • Hurdy Gurdy

    Like a grumbler who claims a five year old

  • I’ve Lived Long with the Dead | The Word Stays Here

    I’ve lived long with the dead. I know their

  • Yellowphant and Don’t Forget

    The circus so yellow and red stands on two feet,

  • Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland

    Your poems make me want to write my poems

  • At the Kitchen Sink and While the Cows Stood Still

    I stand over the sink

  • Two Poems

    Black, faux-leather cover with gold trim—