May 19, 2026
Upon reviewing the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz collection in Lausanne
Of course you remember Mariettethe marionette who loved to breakher routineshe was living in Inwood along the longdefunct IRTshe was picking sandalwood foundat a store out in Francecarrying it far […]
May 19, 2026
Zillow listings in an oil town
The thing is I understandthe dangers of plotting this farin advance a matryoshkaof crews repairing the secondsinkhole on I-80 New Jerseya bunch of trashI met my wifein Dyrrachium while smokinga […]
May 19, 2026
Abacus; Chortkeh
Tell me about cherried board; from your grandfatherivory; bone in monochromebalanced and turned; by concentrated hands of hisover Brazilian coffee, The first cacao in the city; carpetsSilk, you can feel, […]
May 19, 2026
Deptford
Nightlife spits and makes me oldin it. That bridge is just stoic, not looked after,my kitchen molding into an hour I choseto ignore. That hill was so cold on the […]
May 19, 2026
3 a.m.
The Kenyon Review · “3 a.m.” by Radha Marcum For DWM The logic-illogic of this hour : gustsmaking the eaves moan like lambs : likevoice-box toys turned over : bleatingair […]
May 19, 2026
Honey Bees of the Exclusion Zone
The Kenyon Review · “Honey Bees of the Exclusion Zone” by Radha Marcum In the shadows of Soviet statues, honey-making bees thrive. — Richard Collett, “Inside Belarus’ Nature Reserve in the Shadow […]
May 19, 2026
Ecstatic Past
I once lived by so many horses,so many goats and unendangered bison.Eagles, bald eagles! Really! Right thereby the river in the dead tree. I lived theretoo, right by the river, […]
May 19, 2026
Had We But World Enough
Swifts plummetthrough strata of skyfor the pleasureof coming out alive.Cicadas rattlethe olive treesas wind skims the sea,electrifying stone.A cloud forms itselfrain atom by atom.I’ve been warnedthe sea turtle bitesbut know […]
May 19, 2026
Charm City
Someone’s just failed to blow up the gridas a helicopter clatters, looking for Kathy.America discovered, as the song decreed,though beneath the seal-slick ease of scorn,there is a shame — of what, we’re […]
May 19, 2026
London Zoo
For Saskia HamiltonEvenings in your dimly lit apartment,time passed like the revolving fountainin the penguin pool, its residentsmarching the modernist spiraluntil their yellow feet augured arthritis.The present: Neither of us […]
May 19, 2026
Hawk Moth
There are no hummingbirds in the Old WorldI learned, thinking I’d seen one.Rather, its fine, ingenious hairsare feather-like to ward off predators.Hatched in buds with tongues doubletheir length to reach […]
May 19, 2026
Crocodiles
The Kenyon Review · “Crocodiles” by Harrison Hamm — & baby, I love this dirt road, the shit of it. Our boots: a leather family of four, zombified.Four horsemen of the […]