Poems
“Mr. Cogito and Certain Mechanisms of Memory”
“Suddenly it seems there is nothing more fragile than a landscape”
By Zbigniew Herbert
“This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Wireless Warning System”
“We’ve all walked into the bar / of a joke we’ll never get.”
By Dobby Gibson
“Sighting”
“If anything could have brought you home / it would have been that swank, outlandish car.”
By Jacqueline Osherow
“Dead Reckoning”
“We are driving the Middle West, lost / as Oklahoma or Kansas slowly spins / into darkness.”
By Anthony Walton
“Port of Havana”
“in the distance / a boat heads off to carve / into the navel of the sky”
By Nancy Morejón
“Wallpaper Poem”
“If to dust we return / And we do / Why spend a minute / Choosing wallpaper.”
By Phillis Levin