Poems

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  • FISHERMAN, 50 B.C.

    What else would I do on the river
  • Mommie

    After I’m dead, will the world will remember me
  • Flowers in a Vase

    The dahlias' unopened buds poke like periscopes above their clownish mass
  • Train to Naples and “It’s Awful Plain”

    Five ceramic half-ducks flew up the wall.
  • We Lay Our Fear in a Wicker Basket

    Too drunk, walking around
  • The Public Servants and Amateur

    To be delivered by a sad man standing in a single light.
  • Poem with Allusions

    The thoughts that come on little cat feet
  • Two Poems

    Deer sniff red November
  • FOUNTAIN

    Dogwood white knuckle it through January, February, March:
  • from Canisy

    Whenever we lined up to march into class, the assistant at my grandfather’s school always had us sing the kind of
  • Abramovic

    The eyes are the edge of the central nervous system.
  • Moisei Fishbein translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

    During the war and for some time after the war