Poems

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  • The Interview

    Where is your wheel? Your bike-body? Sturdy-car-self?
  • Anti-Gravity Time Machine

    From the front stoop it’s the 21st century;
  • He Was Amazed

    He was amazed by the curve of his life. What he thought unique had made its arc like any other, as if life had
  • The Night Was Born

    This night was born in an old and dust-filled pantry, and yesterday’s – in the
  • From the grab bag of desire

    I keep meaning to walk up to you,
  • When We Make Lifelines, the Universe Breathes a Little Easier

    When night becomes heavy, I break a hole
  • Riddle

    The chair is not far from the bed
  • Blueshift

    In another life I’m a cosmologist, lungs snow-
  • RIFF ON A LINE BY CHAR

    Somewhere inside the sacerdotal
  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention
  • Stammer  (2 pp)

    Was I hatched from an egg, fostered by birds
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—