Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
May 1, 2023
Let’s be GodFor a moment, Shall we?That which invites Composition,That which is suspended From a great height,The presence Of approximationHeavy in the meadows, I’m not afraid,And yet My shroud vanishesIn these lines, I am so weptPast weeping, And wh
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Your Name Means Garden
Guernica Magazine
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Your Name Means Garden
Mar 27, 2020
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from The Odyssey, Book Five
The Paris Review
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from The Odyssey, Book Five
Jun 18, 2024
Hermes strapped the beautiful sandals onto his feet,Immortal, made of gold, which bore him across the wet seasAnd endless expanses of land as swift as the breath of the wind.He took along the wand with which he lulls to sleep the eyesOf any man he pl
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
The American Poetry Review
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Jan 1, 2020
My friends, who can reach heaven? The monster bellows like a river swollen with flood.Many are consumed in his fiery breath. My friends, who can reach heaven? Let us ask the mountain for a sign.Let us cut the spirits from the cedars. My friends, who
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Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Paris Review
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Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Jun 15, 2018
And, after the explosion, made spheres sing,A pure expression of pure poetry,Like rising rain or a nation with noFlag—. Something that whispers as the airDoes just before the lightning comes. A pureExpression of the breaks in the blank lakesOn Neptun
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Four Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Four Poems
Jul 1, 2022
The embers of a Thousand YearsUncovered by the HandThat fondled them when they were FireWill stir and understand——from Emily Dickinson’s “1383” Remember when we hurriedourselves into the evening’s sacral blaze: Our coal-covered bridal gownsdrenched i
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Four Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Four Poems
Jan 1, 2023
And god created the waves and we the graves beneath, bodies madeparticulate by the force of water against water, water against rock, againsttime. I descend into the deep in a kind of prayer, listen to its centuries.Make me pay, will you, make me hurt
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
Article
Five Poems
Nov 1, 2022
To be the fish on the ladderand not know what it means. To feel the bronzes,the pearls, the greens, but in a contextof pure combat. To fight the literal stream we hurl ourselves into for nodiscernible purpose, other than some moleculesays it will be
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Housed In Separate Identities
New Philosopher
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Housed In Separate Identities
Sep 6, 2021
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My Own Personal Herakles
Literary Hub
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My Own Personal Herakles
Sep 29, 2017
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TEN POEMS Translations of Rafael Alberti
The American Poetry Review
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TEN POEMS Translations of Rafael Alberti
May 1, 2024
Throughout the centuries,through the nothingness of the world,I, without sleep, search for you. Behind me, imperceptible,without touching my shoulders,my dead angel keeps watch. Where is Paradise,Shadow, you who have been there?I ask silently. Cities
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Two Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Two Poems
Sep 1, 2023
This poem is for everyperson who will neverread it either by choiceor circumstance I writeit in silence wherethe most realparts of our liveslive like a shoe lostin an alley or an emptyboat in a black sea butmore like the fallenleaf on the other sideo
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RHYME & REASON
Great Walks
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RHYME & REASON
May 17, 2021
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Two Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Two Poems
Nov 1, 2023
For I woke with a walnut for a skullFor every star switched on, burning through black pagesFor if you seek God you will find His childrenFor everything I know fits in a walnutFor every scene I once lived now invisible For I didn’t want to meet people
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Two Poems by Mary Szybist
The Paris Review
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Two Poems by Mary Szybist
Sep 15, 2019
Like an alarm I can’t shut off, the summer.Like air raid sirens stuck onthe world is burning, the world is burning& I can’t stop it. Can’t stop ash from the reddening sky falling dry onto grass, onto cloverlit purple at their tips. Mouth level.My che
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg
The Paris Review
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Mar 9, 2021
Poetry’s “impulse, like electricity, crossing the space, leaves its signature.”—W. S. Graham No wonder that a flash of sparksSpills out from what I touch—the LaserJet, Brimming with static shock,Suspends invisible electron-clouds Across the laser-pap
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AUSTRALOPITHECA1 & STARMAN2
The American Poetry Review
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AUSTRALOPITHECA1 & STARMAN2
Sep 1, 2019
The countdown to you begyns with me, deere Starman, when I wander, dumbly, deep into a space hospittable to Hunger. Now, all’s desert. No milk in syte. Just pitifull sand, what shushes as it slydes through your hande to rejoin itself. I’d join myself
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Literary Hub
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Feb 13, 2018
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Something About John Coltrane
The American Poetry Review
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Something About John Coltrane
Sep 1, 2021
Something about a tree in shallow sleepListening for what it wants to remember: The note of a seed, its neck sliding throughDirt and its confusion—nothing cleansed Of struggle. The weight lost after death,A confrontation of death. John Coltrane Even
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from BLACK PASTORAL
The American Poetry Review
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from BLACK PASTORAL
Nov 1, 2023
somewheres, some lifetimes ago I have run so far, so long.There is nowhere I haven’t beenBut here, in this field, a bodyLength from the ragged brinkThat gives way to forest.I collapsed here, the thin, hard slipOf me whittled at both ends.I want badly
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Commentary: The Yin And Yang Of Springtime, Which Brings Equal Measure Of Light And Shadow
Chicago Tribune
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Commentary: The Yin And Yang Of Springtime, Which Brings Equal Measure Of Light And Shadow
Mar 22, 2023
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In the Dolomites
The Threepenny Review
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In the Dolomites
Sep 1, 2019
1. The afternoon walk, it turns out, may not have been a walk at all.Nor can I locate in the Dolomites the placeWhere we met, though I remember It with a level of detailUsually I reserve for things of consequence.Snow layered in the crevices, white
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
Article
Five Poems
May 1, 2019
“My arm is so brown and so beautiful,” is a thought I haveas I’m about to turn off the lamp and go to sleep.I look at it a moment in the soft glow, and see it, briefly,as though it belonged to someone else. A reddishkind of brown, like a toasted almo
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“The Good Light”
Literary Hub
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“The Good Light”
Oct 23, 2020
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La Globalizzazione In Versi / Globalisation In Verses
Domus
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La Globalizzazione In Versi / Globalisation In Verses
Nov 25, 2022
Non dico: sono uscito, se ho camminato. Se cammino, cammina con me il mio interno. Il mio interno è esterno, il mio esterno è interno – quando cammino. È l'unità del volto, del cuore e dei piedi: un'altra inclinazione senza come o dove? La magia del
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In Search Of Lost Time
New Philosopher
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In Search Of Lost Time
Oct 29, 2018
One might have said that the portents which that day were to rescue me from my discouragement and give me back faith in literature were determined to multiply themselves, for a servant, a long time in the service of the Prince de Guermantes, recognis
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at FIRE
Ceramics: Art and Perception
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at FIRE
Apr 7, 2020
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Bard In The Woods
Great Walks
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Bard In The Woods
Nov 30, 2020
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Vision In The Bayou
Angels on Earth magazine
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Vision In The Bayou
Jun 25, 2022
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Two Poems
The American Poetry Review
Article
Two Poems
Nov 1, 2018
In a hotel in a small town in Norfolk I am listening to someonethrowing glass bottles into a metal bin: toss-shatter, toss-shatter.There are no other sounds; it’s a quiet afternoonbut the one tossing them has a sense of rhythm and I havea sense that
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