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318 pieces
Relic
Zephyr
The Storm
Confessional
Persistent Illusions
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign
Make no sense following each other
And calls out, protests, screams.
Horticulture or Eternity
Gallowed Be
Ode to My Pectus Excavatum
Antediluvian
Covenant
Diluvian
Postdiluvian
Confession
Deluge
Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare
The Theoktistria
My Grandparents’ Velvet Painting of ‘The Last Supper’
To a Wren on Calvary
Alviso
Review by Brandon Young | “Deluge” by Leila Chatti
Leila Chatti
The Intersection
Ordinary Psalm in the Days of Awe
Breakable Jesus
Genesis
Damned If
How to Swallow the Snake
Adelma (Harrisville, N.H.)
Renault / Paris / 1935
Watch the Lame Beast Turn
Christ in a Cholo Stance
Looking for God (its big machine)
Annunciation, without Angel
Reading about the Lost Children of Tuam
‘Adoration of the Magi,’ ca. 1475
Shaken, as of Things That Are Made
My Mother Has Had It with the Tragedies
Review by Joy Katz | “Winter” by Sarah Vap
When the Time Comes
Elijah Fed by Ravens
Elijah and the Widow
Agnostic Wandering
Reading Bruno Schulz on Rosh Hashanah
Meet You at the Dollar General Across from the Family Dollar
Review by Brandie Gray | “Dolefully, a Rampart Stands by Paige Ackerson-Kiely”
“A Conversation with Jessie van Eerden”
Jessie van Eerden
End Times
from “Some Reflections: Growing Out of the Recent Epidemic of Influenza that Afflicted Our City”
Heart Relics, Lost Virgins, and Diving Boys: Expeditons into Devotion
Real Bananas and MoonPie
RoadsideAmerica.com Suggests Visiting the Ultraviolet Apocalypse
The Bus of Mrs. M.
Syncretism
Approaching Afterlife
Birthday
What I Want Your Voice to Do
1917 Suite | “From this Wound, this Ugly Knowledge”
Strange Fire
Hail Mary
Pew
Bone
Eve, clownin’ Adam
God asked me, like he asked Job, Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
Sunday Drive
The Nine Solitary Plasters of a Comedy
Annunciation
Helen Keller at the Rodeo
Eschatology in Crayon Wax
Covenant (or . . . bagels and butchery)
Three Plays: Introduction & Table of Contents by Ken Weitzman
Hanna Pylväinen
In Which St. Irene, Born Penelope, Is Spared by Beasts of Water, Earth and Sky
i know who you are
Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt
Review | I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
A Visit from the Bishop
God or No God
Self-Deliverance with a Line from George Herbert
Athwominie
Mood for Love
The Abandoned Hour
The Lame Take the Prey
River Bytham
St. Winifred’s Well (2)
Extinction Event: The Book of Revelation, as Interpreted by Link Wray
Hypatia
What Someone Was Supposed to Swing: Secularizing the Spiritual in Larry Levis’s The Darkening Trapeze
Before It Gets Dark
Și, deodată, în bărulețul trupului tău, răstorn masa
Then Suddenly, in the Little Bar of Your Body, I Overturn the Table
Mercy Songs
The Back Porch
Annunciation, 1960
Renewal
Jacob’s Limp
Allegiance
the wilderness rose as incense
Garden Quarrel
Certainty [Edward Taylor . . . ]
The Razor in the Apple
Let There Be
“A Reading by Charles Wright”
On Flesh
Foregone Psalm
Fatti maschii parole femine
Politics of the Afterlife
As a child I ate and mourned.
It’s Like This
Your Death vs. My Death
Crumbs
The Past a Sanctuary Staffed by Poltergeists
The Prophecies of B.B. Guthrie
Holiness, Again
Road to Canaan
The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus
My Mother as Harp Seal, as Sacristan
Review | King Me, by Roger Reeves
World without End
Composer’s Notes: Hearing Voices
Theotokia
from No One is Here Except All of Us
And Here It Seems the Author Died
Adam at the Garden’s Edge
Of Religion
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
Bellwether
The House Always Wins
The Rapture
Review | A Different Sun, by Elaine Neal Orr, and River of Dust, by Virginia Pye
Review | A Concordance of Leaves, by Philip Metres
Review | Reliquary, by Matthew Minicucci
Passing
God Is Always Seventeen
A Singing in the Rocks
In a City of Red Ideas
Soon, We Will Give In
[For fury the Penitent may say]
[When gluttony is less than ruinous]
Is there still a Betty in this new life?
Stalker
Limb Factory
Forget That
Elegy with Her Red-Tipped Fingers
Ramadan Nocturne
Adornment on an Ancient Tomb in Tibet
Gall Themselves, and Gash
Prayer
Signs and Wonders
Col. Othniel Sweet’s Mysteries of Nature, #14 (auto-combustion)
Further Possible Answers to Prayer
The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 1)
Graveside Blessing
Prayer
American Devotions
Matins
Nocturne
None
A Note on ‘Quarantine’
Sext
Our Lady of the Ruins
To Poison the Lion
Sans Terre
Waiting with the Donkey
Review | Persons Unknown, by Jake Adam York and Pleasure, by Brian Teare
Poems in Sequence: Reading Loop Introducton, Blackbird
My Time Among the Swells
Three Stanzas, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
The Hat Called Sky:
Paradise
On the Road to Damascus
Tre Strofer
Virtue
Review of Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J.G. Heck’s Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science, by Joshua Poteat
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 11
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 13
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 8
Psaume 18, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psaume 31, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psaume 32, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psaume 33, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psaume 6, Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Psalm 18, Patrice de la Tour du Pin | translation by Jennifer Grotz
Psalm 31, Patrice de la Tour du Pin | translation by Jennifer Grotz
Psalm 32, Patrice de la Tour du Pin | translation by Jennifer Grotz
Psalm 33, Patrice De La Tour Du Pin | translation by Jennifer Grotz
Psalm 6, Patrice de la Tour du Pin | translation by Jennifer Grotz
Confusion
Ochre xiii
Review of From the Fever-World, Susan S. Williams
Ghazal
One Finger
The Angel of Death Knocks at the Door
Skandalon
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Campidoglio
Water/Zero
: before the armenian church :
Review of Heathen by Lesley Wheeler
Baptism
Easter Evening
Little Goat
Sighting
Alice Coltrane Discovers the World G/god is B/born
Home Ownership and Self Defense
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
Review of Colosseum by Katie Ford
Dreamy Willie and the Trinity of Cows
Within Five Miles of Home
Meaning To Milk
The Whore's Guide to Etymology
Review of Hardscrabble, by Kevin McFadden
Review of The Boatloads, by Dan Albergotti
Review of Mission Work by Aaron Baker
Prayers to a Young God
Charlie Chaplin Dug Up & Ransomed: A Prayer
Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives
Review of Vellum by Matt Donovan, David Roderickl
Herman Melville’s Book of Four Sentences
South Boston Morning, ’53:
Fragment 12 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragment 13 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragments from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Faith, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
Eve
A Conversation with Mary Gordon
Flashpoint
Inspiration, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
3
19
40
66
From 67 mogul miniatures
John's Christ
Flannery's Angel
The Gospel According to Somebody Else
Review of Inkblot and Altar by Laura Van Prooyen
Lemon Breast of the Virgin Mary
Feet
prayer that goes: dear god
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
A New Faith, Liliana V. Blum
Pohamba
The Guest
Exodus
Study/Leaves
Study/Moon
A Gathering of Transits
Noah Studies
Song with Dog and Cemetery
General Sweeney
Apparition of the Virgin
Review: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
This Time
From the Letters of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck
Drink
Light
Sheep
Charm Against a Broken Tongue
Three Divinations
Tableau
Caravaggio’s The Death of the Virgin
Kismet
Still Life
Ordinarily
National Poetry Month
Alef: Seeding the Alphabet
Beit: The House of Musing
Sanctuary in the Dome City
From Bhutan, Scene Three
Blood Feathers
Lent Prayer
Five-Minute Exposure, Large Format
& Now
Inland Sea
OCD
The Book of Crying Kanglings
The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, Glossary
The Book of Crying Kanglings
The Book of Crying Kanglings from The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake
The Book of Crying Kanglings
The Book of Crying Kanglings
Overheard
The Insomnia of Hildegard of Bingen
Review | Fabulae, by Joy Katz
The Superstition of Fire
The Shortest Distance
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Erin Lambert, October 1, 2003
A Few Notes on Norman Dubie's The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, Cliff Edwards
Bed of Nails
The Black Madonna
Sienese Variations
The Earth is not Quiet
The Saved
Canzone
Salat
Deliverance
Clockwork Prayer: An Illness
Clockwork Prayer: Looking at the Monk Then
Clockwork Prayer: Short History
Clockwork Prayer: For Whose Sake?
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction