Poems

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  • To Be That Boy, to Be That Horse

    I’ve watched a shy horse
  • Inauguration Day

    Yes, like thousands of joyful poets today
  • Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot

    Past midnight, a man in his late 60s, tall, with long
  • A Controlled Substance

    My brother is late again, somehow the glass
  • Alone at the New Year

    An instant of awe, then, afterwards,
  • AFTER THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA

    The sky becomes sickly,
  • 3:14 PM

    This blue pen I am holding
  • “The Walnut and Honey Cookies” translated from Romanian by Clara Burghelea

    I am a Kurdish refugee who, for over a decade,
  • The City translated by Kaveh Bassiri

    I dream the city is flying in an airplane
  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed
  • And Now, As Promised

    How lousy are your prospects when you
  • On Delta Flight #2164 From JFK

    I'm headed home from a stint at Long Island's