November 4, 2025
Matisse in Vence
The Kenyon Review · “Matisse in Vence” by Arthur Brown I. Bonnard’s Second ThoughtWhat Bonnard carried with him on the roadback to his studio was not the landbut what it […]
November 3, 2025
Visitation
& there was the garden half circled with trees& there was a silent woman in white, a nun, a nurse,Or a punisher — I did not know — who had come to deliverMy child. […]
November 3, 2025
Light Work
1.1 Light works on objects over time.1.2 This gives us the photo and its negative, an image in duplicate and reverse.1.3 The photographer must be lying on the ground, flat […]
November 3, 2025
Reenactment
November 3, 2025
Fenton’s Task
Wine cart converted to darkroom,Roger Fenton’s photographic vanhad yellow-tinted windows, sectionsfor chemistry and sleep.He drove to war with a consumptive urgeto document. To Crimea, to behold the shoreswhere Agamemnon sailed. […]
November 3, 2025
Proverbial
The Kenyon Review · “Proverbial” by Lynne Jensen Lampe I want to write the poemwhere Jesus himself puts grainalcohol in the grape juice,tells the cafeteria lady he forgothis punch card […]
November 3, 2025
Map of the Moon (2006)
The Kenyon Review · “Map of the Moon (2006)” by Sara Henning A man cut a map of the moon into my body. It’s knifed on my thigh where a […]
November 3, 2025
First Galaxy (1990)
The Kenyon Review · “First Galaxy (1990)” by Sara Henning A galaxy churns in my right elbow, that’s what I call it now, scars braiding their fever straight across my […]
November 3, 2025
My Coworker Thought I Didn’t Know What A Lox Bagel Was, So He Said to Me, “It’s Just Like Sushi”
if a lox bagel is just like sushi then pizza is also sushi and lasagnais also sushi hamburger is sushi chips are sushi your lips are sushion the lips you […]
November 3, 2025
Short Talks
After Anne Carson On 行囊 Mom is packing the most horrendous amount of antibiotics into my luggage: cephalosporin, azithromycin, one for COVID, the other for UTIs. Then all the Asian […]
November 3, 2025
Bargain / 契
You have done all you could do, loitering in the streets with your littering steps, asking people for the lid of my heart. Five dollars for a skin-limp 包子 /bao […]
November 3, 2025
To the Chinese Uncle on the Downtown Six Train
how I wish I could explain to you in detail what it takes to arrive — your jittering eyes yourcallused hands your moving toward me in broken steps your army-green jacket fading […]