Poems

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  • Throne Verse

    Two years of cinders built up in the hearth,
  • Closed Eye Vision of Independence Day

    Dazzled drunks are bent over with laughter,
  • Three Orgasm Poems

    She thinks success would be her best revenge. It’s not enough for her now, merely to be alive. Or to feel bliss in brief
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • SHALL BEAR UPON HIS SHOULDER IN THE TWILIGHT

    Reaching from history, that alpenglow, towards the dead whose clothes I wear
  • Ghosts

    The first time I saw him he was standing
  • The Summer House

    I let the envelope fall to the floor unopened,
  • Wolf

    Ink black, shark toothed, slithering
  • Compare the movement of swallows

    with Magritte’s matrix of businessmen
  • Home

    Those last days in Hollywood—
  • Ode to the Paper Clip

    O knot in two dimensions,
  • Three Poems

    Mud to your waist. Beside you, six men probing with broken