A Modest Proposal

Issue #

4

February 3, 2014

Laurel Blossom

Plump and purple
Figs in pairs
Hanging, hidden
By their

Three-part leaves.

Is this (not God)
Where Eve, Adam
Got the names “naked”
“cover,” “shame?”

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Marilyn: Essays & Poems

Twelve Days From Transfer

Our Loveliest Bruises

At this Puma Juncture, the Pedagogysroman

The Mathematics of Dying

From Desert to Desert

Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On

There are days when I feel an overwhelming, political desire

The Workings of the Mouth of Truth

The Meteorologist

The Man in the Hat

The book of nature

Tercer mundo / Third World

Self Portrait from Before

migrations(s) / multo

Life, this life

Leaving Beirut 3

Leaving Beirut 1

If Gaza Was a Body

From Kafka, Zurau Betrachtungen

Assemblage of Love

A Man Seeks Asylum

The Silent Scream

War & Love: What is Unsaid

Young Hare, Albrecht Durer, 1502

Bathed in Moonlight

vagabondage / wandering

Thus, Her First Goodbye

The Swan: an imitation

The joy of a new dawn

The Imagination of Light

Գիւտին Փառքը / The Glory of the Discovery

The Desert Carried: (Named Raven, Deer, Dove, and Drought)

the country you never leave

Roman Vishniac Photographs a June Bug

Scouring the Lower Boughs for Ripe Apricots

The Calf Bearer, ca. 560 BC

Reluctant Earth

remembering calypso

Red Pickup Truck Pantoum

¿Por qué temer a mis palabras?/ Why do you fear my words?

Parado en la punta de la luna creciente,/Standing at the tip of the crescent moon,

Nocturne for My Final Breath

Naufrage à l'Aube/ Shipwreck at Dawn

Near the Stones of Stenness

Με λένε Εύα / My Name is Eva

"Mister Watson: Come Here I Want to See You"

Message in a Bottle to Arthur Sze

Minarets, Beirut, Early 21st Century

Kalamata Olives

Matthew 6:9-13*

Love on the Farm

Jeannine Hall Gailey: Flare, Corona

Incomplete Translation from the Archaic

In which the poet addresses lack

In every life, a room somewhere, by the sea

Ամերիկայի Մէջ Դպրոցի Առաջին Օրը / In America: First Day of School

i want to write a poem in the shape of home

Hospice (love poem)

Houdini in the Charles

Haibun on Memory

Genesis 1:26-28*

From Some Uncertain Place

Flamenco Recital

For the Poet George Seferis

Esta manana, segun navego por el rio/ This morning as I navigate the river

Eros in the Sunset's Flame

Elixir for Discontinuation of the Species

Early Mid-Atlantic Spring

Distance in Place