Translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul Reviewed by Will Reger Borders can be dangerous places. Unstable, conflict-prone, subject to armed attack and defense. Borders are
after “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop Yesterday I didn’t recognize my purse. Last year, I didn’t recognize my friend. To be fair, the purse
(Mistranslations from the German) VII. In Sleep Birds, nightmoths, spiders, and bats sleep in the dusky trees. Your shadow, lost, like a bird, flaps
I walk local roads when I’m afraid, wonder at others’ schemes, how they carve their lives, their rancorous Christmas lights, their wood- pile lines.