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UN Plaza

Today is not that good day,  I do not want to die.  I'm not a soul but a seal in the company of seals.  We lounge scattered in the dry fountain white stone sculpted… More

Daybreak

Having felt the world tremble / And having known // Ruth / In alien corn, / Exposed and at the mercy / Of masters— // Having seen / And… More

UN Story

There were those who thought, when I was working at the United Nations, that I was actually working for the CIA. The poet Bernadette Mayer was one of these… More

Bollagata

Edda Sólveig’s back is turned to me as she stands on a dry island in the damp floor. I look past her, out my arched window, the jewel of… More

Axe Wound

Snatch. Slit. Box. Words were too dense now. They sat thick on tongues. You had to figure out the right way to say them or you’d choke. More