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  • Tampa at 8PM, Listening to a Podcast on Bird Migration

    Woodlawn Cemetery lies shadowed beneath violet-bellied clouds

  • Two poems by Katja Gorečan (from The Sufferings of Young Hana /Trpljenje mlade Hane) translated from Slovenian by Martha Kosir

    hana likes to sit on the balcony when it rains.

  • For the Dead Union

    After summer rain, the old-growth forest

  • Geology Lessons

    I look back through the window of a Greyhound Bus

  • Flowers in a Vase

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

  • Slaughtered Ox

    Too easy, to take the body as a distraction—

  • The Afterlife of Breath

    My father dead on the gurney

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,

  • The Fourth Walk

    Among the ruined are the ruins. Rules even skies can wreck in shreds,

  • In a Valley & Theorems of Reason

    Hello to the theorems of reason, hidden

  • Three poems by Nadia Mifsud translated from Maltese by Miriam Calleja

    abracadabresque this silence spreading sorrow

  • FOR MATS AND LAILA

    The Date Line lies motionless between Samoa and Tonga, but the Midnight Line glides across the ocean and islands and rooftops of huts.