Poems

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  • Undomesticated

    The large goose does what it always will,
  • BETRAYAL—ORANGES AND APPLES | EEE EQUALS EMCEE SQUARED

    I am a plastic tree, naturally
  • Seven Minutes with Mary Halvorson: Poetry and Jazz, Hand in Hand

    Artlessly falling through overstretched arms delivers the night underground, a hole
  • Seventh Circle

    And after the fight the moment of awakening
  • Corona & At a Time Like This

    A miniscule David without
  • Yahrzeit

    This was the woman who remembered her childhood.
  • House of Clouds | Song

    Clouds float over Giudecca  Island,
  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five
  • Flowers in a Vase

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

    In those days, so many stairways were said to lead to happiness, mainly of a sexual kind—and as I climbed those
  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not
  • Picasso & Dora Maar (1942)

    Four decades I have lived among the French