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  • GETTING READY THE HOUSE | THEY ARE MOVING ALONG

    My friend goes to visit his grave

  • Wrapped in Paper and String

    Monsters crawl in our brains,

  • Mother Doesn’t Bite

    I bite instead and she needs salt,

  • A Wedding in the Hotel

    Sorry, the dining room’s closed:

  • CALLING BACK | CHARITY

    My daughter sings in snow falling through the scent of red oak or ash, some of the flakes large enough to contain passages from Emily Dickinson’s letters. 

  • GIVING HER 100%

    There is a world where

  • I’m Nothing

    close to a Zen scholar,

  • RETURN OF THE HERO

    So they brought in a bird for him,

  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle

  • AFTER A FUNERAL

    After the service and reception hour

  • Idea for a Screenplay *

    A man sits on his porch and reads aloud to the yard, to some plants and to some birds, his feelings of paranoia, anger

  • Sieverts and Joules | Plate 136     Butter Lamp With Moths

    Maybe there’s a new way to be nuclear, not using rods with their troublesome impermanent cladding, their