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  • I’ve Lived Long with the Dead | The Word Stays Here

    I’ve lived long with the dead. I know their

  • Leopard Goes Through Hell Villanelle

    When I am sober my brain calls me names. 


  • January in West Texas

    Once, I preferred nights. How they arrived one tied to the next like silk scarves, knots of daylight between them. I

  • Dear Reader Are You Having a Good Day?

    Dear reader are you having a good day?

  • True Bug | I Will Be Good

    I’ve been talking to a bug all winter.

  • Bookish | Brush Your Fingers Through Your Hair, Why Don’t You?

    The bookishness that

  • Polaris Mall

    February,  9:37 p.m.  Two Canada geese,

  • Last Words

    If only for those you leave behind,

  • At the End of the Alphabet

    Books bloated and fanned

  • Manet’s Asparagus

    Naked as an

  • Wilderness

    The mind is a wilderness like Bartram’s, razed, cemented over, marked by rows

  • Breakfast, the most important poem

    So far, pockets are good