Poems

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  • Solstice, Seven Questions (Private/Public) & A Fable

    blood on a slide--thumbprint in a pool--
  • Two poems by Muyaka bin Haji, (1776—1840)

    When she lays eggs, they’re not nurtured even if brooding them succeeds.
  • Babel’s Artifacts

    The construction proved without
  • The Afterlife of Fish and Opossum

    Whenever we caught fish when we were boys,
  • Feasts for the Blind | My Dear Menshevik

    That year it rained crows. Birds fell out of the sky in midflight.
  • N18P6

    the shape doesn’t
  • It’s Not Your Fault

    The brass lamp in your window,
  • [from the volume 4 A.M. Domestic Cantos, Casa de editură Max Blecher, 2015]

    There will be people and they will push the world further.
  • In Purgatory

    Not easy.
  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English
  • Last Christmas

    Your best friend had brain cancer
  • In Praise of Wandering

    You ask how we do it. Simple.