Poems

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  • PASSING

    They lay the old woman in the back seat of a car,
  • Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke

    door to heaven? portal of wheres in a modern mound.
  • A Meeting

    Of all the disappointments
  • January and The Marrow

    Greetings from the first darkness,
  • Elements and A Streetcar Named Panera

    An abandoned father heals,
  • WORDS IN THE WOODS

    All the words that have been spoken here
  • THE LIGHTS ON THE BOATS

    I didn’t start this to break anyone’s heart.
  • I’LL CALL YOU THIS AFTERNOON,

    I’ll call you nowhere, now
  • Blown Away

    There’s something stuck in my throat, it might be the red-eyed
  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.
  • Shaft of Light

    Smile behind the lips
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—