Poems

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  • Memento Mori: Northern White Rhinos

    They are grey, big as boulders,
  • Ubi Sunt

    In the bottom left corner of Pennsylvania,
  • On Brueghel’s the Tower of Bable

    Anybody calling this scheme stupid
  • Before Summer Rain

    Then, out of the green of the grove,
  • Pier

    If the pier is two hundred and fifty words long, it is important
  • Dealing with the Forbidden & How It Begins

    I've a talent for throwing things away.
  • A ROMANCE | DOUBLED MIDDAY

    A creature without definite feelings. Better so.
  • The Wayfarer

    One must turn thoughts
  • My Surly Heart

    You don’t know what lives
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • True West

    We return by foot from pre-plantation oaks,
  • Ancestors

    Farther back than my grandmother