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Little America
The shortest sentence in my autobiography is one word
A Layered Poem
A Layered Poem
Parting with Kim
To Have, To Hold
Daño oculto
Hidden Damage
The Marriage Plot
Paradise Lust
from ‘Luster’
People Like Us
Triptych
exercise in keeping it all in
Self-Portrait
For Who Spring Is No Laughing Matter
Review by Ty Phelps | “Luster” by Raven Leilani
“A Conversation with Raven Leilani”
Gin and Peach
Echinopsis pachanoi
Echo Discusses Desire with the Trees
Tower of Enchantment
Sleeping Venus and Cupid Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion
Ivy in Every Parallel Universe
Of cabbages and kings
Jennary: Hinterland
Camouflage
Apollo Catches Daphne
At Ten
A Good Date
India West
The Olive
Dearth, Famine, Want
Untitled (Against the slope)
Untitled (the dream is crying )
Untitled (I stared at the glint)
Whiteout
[Папироса за папиросой]
[Cigarette after cigarette]
[Она беззаботна еще, она молода]
[Our Passion’s still carefree, still young]
Diorama (there is a love story)
Diorama (map legend)
Diorama (a moment with the doctor)
Diorama (trapper standing over a young woman in a blue dress)
Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a blue dress)
Self-Portrait With Michelangelo
Borderless
Fragments Reconstructed from a Poem
La Noche
The Night
Weightless
Desire
Flophouse
As a girl I believed in
Niente, Niente, Niente
Geisha Madrigal
St-Germain Madrigal
Mistress Madrigal
Dear Delinquent
O Felon Heart
The Seal
Exhaust
there are jawless fish
Inside excitement is a strand of terror
Solutions
Bone
Annunciation
Stopping at a Gas Station on the Third Day of Driving Across the Country
The Glass Sonata
Soft Action
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Delicatessen
Poem for the Speakeasy
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Undone
The Weeknight Showing
[Ця лисиця] by СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
The Air We Breathed
Review | Orexia by Lisa Russ Spaar
An Invitation
Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt
Black Snow
Licking Light
Las Palmas Reales
Joy
Self-Deliverance with a Line from George Herbert
Sally Isn’t Doing Well
Karen Greenlee
Is there any proof that unicorns exist?
Scylla & Charybdis
I Am in Trouble, and Need Assistance
Și, deodată, în bărulețul trupului tău, răstorn masa
Then Suddenly, in the Little Bar of Your Body, I Overturn the Table
Säfte
Juices
Composition 1
Composition 2
Mr. Darcy (Cars surround us)
Mr. Darcy (He ignores us)
Mr. Darcy (These men can be collected)
Novitiate
Finger
A small (or large) machine
The Rebecca Portraits, Paul Strand, 1920-1932
Ventriloquist
c(on)ta(in)er
o(vers)ight
Nightshift as a Waitress: When the Regular Arrives
[Shadow, you’ll travel to what waits ahead]
They May Only Go Where They’re Bid
The Razor in the Apple
Quiz: Eros
Panama City
Eight Million in Cash from Armored Cars
Nine Miles outside Comfort, Texas
Almanac of What’s Real
Snail
Dear Animal
Pastoral (Radio)
Your Death vs. My Death
Swinging Lessons
[Inside the heart, love carps it lacks space.]
[One life, a thousand wishes, each to die for slowly.]
[What will my friends do when all their gambits fail?]
restriction
An Early Nude by Rothko
The Peace
Eros:
Cleopatra in the Club Car
Romanticism (the Blue Keats)
This Life with Bees
A Conversation about Desire
Jersey Shore
Different Fires
For Us
The Date
Blue Boy
Cassowary
Love
Honey,
Adam at the Garden’s Edge
I Didn’t Tell You I Wanted to Feel Your Chin at the Nape of My Neck
New Food
Sonnet
Eleanor Writes She’s Reading Rimbaud
The Carceral
Last Page of His First Novel, Called The Sisters Grim.
Alphabet of the Peacock’s Eyes
A new science
[In London, 1973, watching Ultimo Tango a Parigi]
[When gluttony is less than ruinous]
West
Landscape: the moon
Landscape: stages
Landscape: trillium
Irene Virga Salafia
The Varsouvienne
Ramadan Nocturne
One Year After My Move to California, I Jell-O Wrestle My Texan Past in a Dream
Recollect
“Las Meninas and Perro Semihundido” Tori Sharpe
Dark
A Moment’s Indulgence
from Opening the World
variations of this luminous hour, metro station
all of a sudden the ruin of possibilities and novelty
Snowbound
Journal of Responses
And Night Illuminated the Night
Once
Thallium
After Music
From a Place Other than the Lake
If Never the Why then at Least the How
Human Resources
Isobars
A Man Writes ‘Human’ and is Not Punished
None
Sext
Our Lady of the Ruins
Sans Terre
Gram Parsons
from Unseen Character
from Unseen Character
Infinidelity
from “Dear Sara Jane”
V. from Ampersand Revisited
Myself—be Noon to Him
The Lovely Theresa
Dear P., XXII
Cannibals
Iron Curtain
Eve’s Fall Through Technology
What They Tell You
The world is my
From Three Words of a Magnetic Poetry Set Found Caked in Dirt Beneath James Merrill’s Last Refrigerator
In the Afternoon Men Are Dreaming of the Dark
The Edge of the Sea
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-Whist
She Gets Drunk and Talks Too Much at Her 20th Reunion
Woman, Snake, Percy Sledge
Tagore Variations 1
The Succubus and I: A True Romance of the Twenty-first Century
September
The Pedicure
Proposal
Em
Leopard ne čepi
Ehm, Tomaž Šalamun | translation by Michael Thomas Taren
The Leopard Doesn't Squat, Tomaž Šalamun | translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Birthmark
Qawwali
On Balston Beach
When All the Words Were Grass
Penis Fencing
Mating Chain
Sixteen Poems
Last Date with Narcissus
Review of Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito
It’s Love that Pushes Stockings Down, M. L. Brown
Outdoor Room
Signs
A System Pamphlet (With Illustration of How They Hide)
Sex & Petroglyphs
We're at a Party
Controlled Burn
The Girl Needs to Be Kissed
Moth, Horse, Accident, Skin
Taste of Cherry
Polarity
Lines
Planetarium (One Adult Admission)
Clockwork Erotica: Why He Takes Off His Glasses When Telekinesis Fails
Night with Eros in the Story of Leather (2)
Letter to the City Bayou by Its Sign: Beware Alligators
March 19, 2003
spring's confessional poem
what is it darling, that draws you to me? it's probably insipid
Letter to N., Paris
Hummingbird
Oranges | A translation of Iman Mersal by Khaled Mattawa
Modern Romance
Motel 1
Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas
How to Apparel Yourself for the Hunt
Review of On Dream Street by Melanie Almeder
Hunger
Homework: Define Caliente
In Another Country
Nocturne with Choreography for Departure
The Window
Mercury
Recessional
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
Ventriloquist on an Off Day, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Morning After the Prom
the honky tonk blues bar
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Film Noir, Catherin Pierce
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Western, Cahterine Pierce
Weegee: Coney Island Beach After Midnight
Review of Inkblot and Altar by Laura Van Prooyen
A Fine Romance
Drowning
Incunabula
Three A.M.
J’ai fait la magique étude du bonheur
Ficus
The Man Who Never Said Much
From Omphalos
i lie back on my red coverlet and contemplate
A New Faith, Liliana V. Blum
From The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Some Girl
Some Girl
Wakulla Springs
Study/Bees
Three Days After the Storm
Adam and Eve as Fire and Water
End of Free Love
Males Often Have Brilliant Colors
Control C
Review: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Drink
This Is Not an Elegy
Tiresias
Breast-Feeding Across America
The Cow Can’t Fear Something Eternal
Are you expressing a desire to know me?
Stiff-Edged Kimono (Ruffled Iris)
Memory of What I Should Regret
What You Meant Was
The Aqueduct's Up There Somewhere
And So Because We Don't Want To
Beast-Lover Variations
Dream Bardo
Once Upon a Time in Venice
More
The Garden of Sex
The Garden of Sex II
Diary
Psalm with a Phrase from Beckett
Torso No. 3 (Curved Spine)
Five-Minute Exposure, Large Format
Brain Fruit
A Blueprint of Surface Tension
Brandon Som's Lonely Hotdog
The Boss's Boyfriend
Zip Drive
My Things
Eat of This Tree
Woman in the I-65 Rest Stop
Le Jazz Hot
Doppelganger Music
Lullabye
Untitled, with Peonies in Bloom
What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem
Key West | Act Three: East
Key West | Act One: North
Key West | Act Two: South
Bocca
Dark Land of Desire
Abstraction
Possessions
Arms of the Snake
Swoon
Turning, D. James Smith
Greece
Dream House
Next Morning Letter
He Said Discipline is the Highest Form of Love
Want, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
Night-Blooming Jasmine
Chestnut
Black Light (II)
Murk
Nero