Poems

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  • Copper Beech

    Because it had been, quite literally,
  • Three Poems and a Translation

    In life I was chasing a deer. In sleep the deer
  • take heed, hazard

    what could it have been
  • Busy bees | Torture

    I like being around people who believe
  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Oh, darling in the distance
  • January and The Marrow

    Greetings from the first darkness,
  • Wilhelmina Shakespeare

    Blond hair, blue eyes, buck teeth:  we taunted you
  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • 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
  • Outhouse with Maggots

    Look at us. Please. Do not run away.
  • Death of God

    Bituminous was so soft, so much like dust
  • Hunger Abstract

    A black cat