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  • The Old Pythagorean | Wish You Were Here

    The Scottish sheep farmer John Williamson espoused the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis, which held that

  • Woo | Red Rover

    O life little life little sawdust fleck I thought we’d go on riding hip-to-hip

  • Against Surrealism | Anima

    The human heart weighs ten ounces, but I don’t know if it can float. I don’t suppose it makes sense to say I feel like

  • Disseminate

    Plums to the Garden of Eden. Their flesh

  • Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland

    Your poems make me want to write my poems

  • Say You’re Don Giovanni

    Say you’re Don Giovanni Giovanni and you make

  • Flowers in a Vase

    The dahlias' unopened buds poke like periscopes above their clownish mass

  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.

  • Over

    Suddenly, it’s over, and I hear!

  • Snow Day, by Jerome Sala

    The camera in the other room points and clicks

  • At Once People at the End of Their Lives

    come from common spaces to move around

  • From Night, by Ennio Moltedo, translated from Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz

    Can we go on like this?