Poems

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  • AS IN A SACK | STILL HEARD | BREATH THEY COULDN’T

    AS IN A SACK held shut by cord,
  • Learning to Play It Again

    While my daughter was learning Clementi —
  • Ars Poetica, with Cow

    She went back to look at the beast, which lay immobile except for one eye watching the girl who stood helpless beside
  • Fifteen Essays on Boats, Boats, Language, and the SS

    The Palermo Airport is not large.
  • Road Trip

    Over the singed and brittle roadside stalks,
  • 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
  • Trash

    Good you are trashing, my husband says, when I send him a photo
  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Digital streaming, brother, rates of flow in time
  • At the End of the Alphabet

    Books bloated and fanned
  • Guitar & Lantern

    The boy with prosthetic limbs is the flame
  • The Plumber is Here

    The plumber is here
  • Car le Vice by Tomaž Šalamun translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

    Car le Vice, rongeant ma native noblesse