Poems

Nicanor Parra, 1914 -2018 . In Santiago, Chile The days are interminably long: Several eternities in a day. Like the...

Kōgyo Tsukioka (1869-1927) . When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the...

Max Dupain, Starfish in Rockpool, Toowoon Bay, 1986 . A dead starfish on a beach He has five branches Representing...

Konstantin Somov, Sleeping Young Woman, 1922 . Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into...

Emil Nolde (1867 - 1956), Green Landscape with Red Cloud . What have I to say to you When we...

Paris, 1950′s . Millions and millions of years Would still not give me half enough time To describe That tiny...

Julianna Swaney, A gentleman and his prized ferns, 2019 . I go a-gunning, but take no gun; I fish without...

Hasegawa Tohaku, Maple, 1592. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be...

Norval Morrisseau, Migration, 1973 . “Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty...

Artur Pastor, Nazaré, 1953-57 . Any clear thing that blinds us with surprise, your wandering silences and bright trouvailles, dolphin...