Poems

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  • Movie and Two Little Miners

    When I was ten    they took me into a coal mine
  • SOLILOQUY OF A TORNADO IN THE DISTANCE

    I knew a girl once
  • Song

    It wasn’t a goat’s head swaying in the tree. It was a ferret
  • Breakfast, the most important poem

    So far, pockets are good
  • JOURNAL, OR STORY WITHOUT WORDS

    And I follow the hand copying what it had written years ago
  • In Praise of Transformations

    Not always dramatic.  Often soundless.
  • God’s Man

    When I was twelve I found it
  • The Orders of the Ordinary

    Death seemed no more
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • Love Poem | Birthday Cake

    It’s an alliance,
  • Happiness on Earth

    Especially if you were waking
  • On Not Translating Polish Poets

    Were it not