Poems

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  • Elegy & Brooklyn, 1957

    My brother told me we would join the Wide
  • The Quarry, Pontaise

    To enter into the greens
  • Poetry

    In my new room upstairs,
  • Bear and the Crows

    So many in the winter trees they caw
  • Your Brother’s Face

    You believe your brother will come down
  • Qinghai and Tengchong

    a prayer flag rolls around a heap of round stones
  • Three Poems

    Being adopted means I have choices on “The Meaning of Your Name”
  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.
  • Alex Averbuch translated from the Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

    everything happened as in the early days of creation
  • The Maker

    The maker never uses thread
  • For the Dead Union

    After summer rain, the old-growth forest
  • Fake Lemon Tree on a November Day in a Boat Depot in Chelsea

    O lemon tree, how you emerge, distinct from everything