Poems

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  • RETURN OF THE HERO

    So they brought in a bird for him,
  • A Provisional Topography | One of the Many Stories of Sounds | Sooner or Later

    On the Weichsel River, before the war. You see
  • On Clitocybe Nuda | On Oysters

    Peak of autumn’s deepening yellow
  • January in West Texas

    Once, I preferred nights. How they arrived one tied to the next like silk scarves, knots of daylight between them. I
  • On a Version of “Lady with Lapdog” | Synch

    How clever, to leave out all the articles, thereby suggesting their story, their plight, were less a story than a portrait
  • Two Poems translated from the Faroese by Randi Ward

    The first time I was in London,
  • Lion Cub & Whales

    We’d taken to being clever, or is that merely mischievous?
  • Found Poem: “Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who Is Being Attacked Where,” NYT, April 3, 2021 

    Queens | A 47-year-old man and his 10-year-old son
  • Shame

    Why did I want a Queen Conch shell
  • THE SACRIFICE | BROWNACRE

    nothing but blue
  • The Fruit Bat of Taxidermy

    Whoever the taxidermist was,
  • The Madonna Poems

    She bends to lift him from the basket.