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  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth

  • Liquidation

    Final closeout, clearance sale, you said:

  • Letter to My Almost Former House

    It’s true, I’m getting ready to leave you.

  • Dear Meat

    What's your point?

  • A Controlled Substance

    My brother is late again, somehow the glass

  • When We Make Lifelines, the Universe Breathes a Little Easier

    When night becomes heavy, I break a hole

  • Three Stages of Friendship and Grief

    I was wondering if your eyelashes had fallen out

  • Dust

    You return with us to the grave,

  • Seesaw

    The sun was overhead. The playground steamed.

  • Willem Van de Velde the Younger, Ships in a Gale (1660) and Matsumura Goshun, Crab (late 18th century)

    The storm dissolves the difference between wave,

  • What I learned from ‘Saved by the Bell’

    Only half a dozen people actually exist

  • Sister Dementia Remembers & Phone Booth

    Enough of bosom, ass, and pillow—