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  • Rembrandt and the Great Drought

    Before your birth, of course, the drought

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

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

  • Post Mortem

    You might not see the bodies in the famous photo

  • [I encircle you] translated by Sasha Dugdale

    I encircle you as a zone of mountains, granite corona

  • A Brief Portfolio

    the afternoons are perfect

  • Pip

    Withered pip of a boy, now grey and halt

  • IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT*


    It's 3 AM. The crows on one leg or none are already starving for infant nests. A few leaves hang on

  • Bartosz Konstrat translated from Polish by Dawid Mobolaji

    Suddenly: bam! The little boys rise from their knees, their teeth grow and begin to bite.

  • It’s Not Your Fault

    The brass lamp in your window,

  • Beyond the Unnamed Thickets of Silence translated from Spanish by Jeremy Paden

    Beyond the unnamed thickets of silence,

  • from In the Fires of Absence

    Beautiful gelid just-

  • Four Poems

    Unable to return from my ashes