A caldera of intimation, a cinder,
a bright relic in a penny arcade,
a candela, a radiant dalliance,
a break in the calendar, when I cried,
a grained reading. I lingered, an Inca
reclined on an edge, a dicier side receding.

-Alex Cigale
Bigger than They Appear

“What a cache of treasures this collection is, what a cache of jewels. […] All are reminders of what the best, briefest poems can do: give back the world to us, as it passes, in the mirror of a few well-chosen words.”

-Cecilia Woloch

Alex Cigale’s translations of Russian Silver Age miniature and contemporary minimalist poems are online at Offcourse (albany.edu, issue 41) and Alba (Ravenna Press, issue 21), respectively.