A pox on _______ and the gerrymander he rode in on. Expel, export, exile him while we waft sage-smoke around. At this zero hour, as our wombs contract under the moon, cast him out, groper / loomer / cheater … Read More
tr. from the Portuguese by Calvin Olsen the beautiful journey–Konstandinos Kavafis For some the end of the earth is likely the end of the world. For others the end of the world is the starting point for the journey. Hand … Read More
tr. from the Portuguese by Calvin Olsen Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino Wrapped in meters of linen in an urn of carved wood (inside a stone sarcophagus inside a sealed tomb) this mummy doesn’t make it easy on … Read More
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain At high summer Lake Huai runs dry a few days, the bed revealed Where are the fish? I stretch my hand into the grotto, touch a tail: sleek, flat, fidgety . … Read More
It was hard to keep up— 6th Street, Beverly to University. Wet snow and wind stung my face, sidewalk too narrow, no shoulder— cars would’ve hit me if I’d reached out my arm. The train chuffs its cargo … Read More
Tell me again the story of the farmer who finds a golden axe in the river and must enter tribunal with a silver dragon. Or the man whose obsession with a wind nymph causes a trickster to turn … Read More
They said she hurt them and brought them the book & then they fell into fits. When Mary’s hands are clincht together they point, cry out—Look! Mercy Lewis’ hands are clinch. When Mary stands with her head bowed—put up … Read More
ties upon ties upon ties upon go somewhere little wild … Read More
When lifted, it surrenders like a whirling dervish … Read More
What are we supposed to do tonight— fancy, wondering. I wanted to see the kind of crazy we celebrate. For the time we’re here locked up like pretty sketches, something pleasant you remember mixed up inside. It’s … Read More
It is time to disclose the truth. How they descended on my desk and typed a letter that made very little sense, a logic that matched their size and elusiveness. How I left the study to purchase a cheese … Read More