Poems

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  • Centerfold of the Year | Centerfold of the Month: Rabbit Season | Centerfold of the Month: Judgment

    Full frontal I stand, knee-high socks and white heels,
  • Letter From The Capital

    She writes: now we have wars between historical eras. We fight in time as well as space. 1914 vs. 1939 is a devastating
  • Thanksgiving Chorus

    Kindergarteners beautiful and dumb
  • The Pair

    Here’s how they climbed out of the nights’ custody.
  • LIKE

    No other sound like it.
  • The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

    We are as flies in a pitcher plant,
  • Proof of Poetry

    I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter
  • Learning to Play It Again

    While my daughter was learning Clementi —
  • Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, On Freud’s Birthday [May 5] & In Vienna

    The first movement of Tchaikovsky’s
  • To Isabella Franconati

    After your husband died and the cypress trees,
  • Two Poems

    In a blue wool cape and pearl earrings
  • Three poems by Li Suo translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein and Henry Zhang

    the cemetery east of river bank road