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  • What Santa Asked When Lord Russell Argued that “Santa Claus” was a Definite Description and not a Referring Expression

    I tell my students to heed four things and they will be fine.

  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel

  • Ocean Park

    Call this landscape abstract if the world’s splendour

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I remembered one day when I was new to that part of the city

  • A Story About Vietnam and Alexi Santana

    In a tiled bathroom stall, one chapter per tile,

  • Story of My Species

    first she was in the ocean

  • [I encircle you] translated by Sasha Dugdale

    I encircle you as a zone of mountains, granite corona

  • Sweet Nothings

    I whispered to your offered ear

  • Stammer  (2 pp)

    Was I hatched from an egg, fostered by birds

  • Shame

    Why did I want a Queen Conch shell

  • [from the volume 4 A.M. Domestic Cantos, Casa de editură Max Blecher, 2015]

    There will be people and they will push the world further.

  • Threnody and Sylvia Plath

    The train coach, Jean—empty except for you,