ALAN SHAPIRO’s most recent book of poems, Song and Dance, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2022
A Loft
My two tall windows let in so much light I can see kiln fires in the facing floor-to-ceiling red-brick wall that all day moodily smolders and flares up and dies, […]
Poetry
Winter 2004
Ghost Watch
The blood pooled in the fresh fosse and up they drifted out of Erebus like smoke from every side in a listless swarming all around Odysseus, crowding, pressing, merging together, […]
Poetry
Winter 2004
The Haunting
It may not be the ghostly ballet of our avoidances that they’ll remember, nor the long sulks of those last months, nor the voices chilly with all the anger we […]
Poetry
Winter 2004
Take Off
We didn’t fall out of love, old love, we rose—we rose as in a plane, as in the moment when the wheels lift and the whole craft shudders against the […]