"Adventures of a Narcissist"

a long way de la hejmo
paghlogh the green flash

A numb dead ocean peers · back at me
rapidly becoming a subfusc wall of

growing bIr
thunderclap remaining constantly

profound stomp the sound
of inquiring Aleppo


The Color of Night.


" 'It's simple. We take care of each other.' says Kalil."


"What subject-matter do I specially covet for poetry to-day? Many years ago I said, and I have had no occasion to change my mind, ‘If I were asked to frame a test paper for literary aspirants, I would ask (1) for a poem on the fact that what is known as the ‘Lorentz transformation’ looks like the ‘Einstein transformation’ ."