Poems

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  • Moveable

    Swords drawn, Hem and his bronze friend
  • Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky

    There’s now a so-so year for you: 1933—
  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • Objects in Mirror Are Larger than They Appear

    That beautiful girl on a bicycle smoking a cigarette:
  • Three Poems

    Fish-shaped, dark brown,
  • First Days at the Conservancy

    I’m looking out the window—Paula’s window—
  • Three Poems

    I remember a ditch of cattails, learning their names. How they rose by the bridge
  • The Pair

    Here’s how they climbed out of the nights’ custody.
  • The Book of Guests

    They gamboled toward me on the plain—two lambs
  • HOW IT IS WITH THE MEEK

    They are pulverized into earth
  • Imagined Corners

    At the corner where the transept cuts the nave,