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  • Paper

    Damned if I’ll be the woman who collects mass produced throw pillows counts her

  • After Our Parents Get Divorced, Our Mother Buys an Ivy Stencil

    In the small white bedroom

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • Late Elegy for Charlotte

    You were about to sail the Seine.

  • FIREFLIES

    Evenings when the children

  • FOUNTAIN

    Dogwood white knuckle it through January, February, March:

  • The Blue Light

    Where were you as the light descended & do you

  • From Bajo la lluvia ajena (In Foreign Rain) by Juan Gelman, translated by Lisa Rose Bradford

    On the tiers of experience.

  • The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

    We are as flies in a pitcher plant,

  • Ultimatum

    If I forget one character a day

  • Two poems by Sandra Moussempès, translated from French by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

    A house stands out from the rest of the forest, emptied of its occupants for centuries

  • Bartosz Konstrat translated from Polish by Dawid Mobolaji

    Suddenly: bam! The little boys rise from their knees, their teeth grow and begin to bite.