Poems

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  • Sunday in Gdansk

    In the Gdansk inner harbor
  • A Catalogue

    You wrote me a letter in a very fast hand
  • Sister Dementia Remembers & Phone Booth

    Enough of bosom, ass, and pillow—
  • ON PAINTING THE SISTINE CHAPEL: MICHELANGELO TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA

    This damn job’s given me a goiter –
  • Fifteen Essays on Boats, Boats, Language, and the SS

    The Palermo Airport is not large.
  • The Shape of Things

    I’ve been reading the science books again
  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting
  • Obit

    At this beat-up plywood slab across the beat-up
  • Museling, a Pastoral

    I’m reading a poem by a young woman,
  • knell & i object i object i object

    the chit-a’click-chit of a squirrel
  • THE RAIN SO COLD

    The air of the day abhors us
  • Toussaint

    The soul, you said, is this sour wind, or this empty glass, the tiny steps of insects, these white iron