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  • Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules

    A power in proximity to terror, the lower middle-class sublime of a car’s back seat,

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Three Poems

    I’ve seen demons, each one tossed

  • Two Poems

    I didn't know it then, but we were learning Italian...

  • A Brief Portfolio

    A detail like a grave

  • Uplight

    The uplight is where I want to be, above and looking, and looking over.

  • Insomnia, A Love Story

    Everybody sleeps.  Our poem starts with that premise.

  • Separation

    Slumbering suburbs, calm depths of summer.

  • Two Poems

    You search for the best doctors, try to curb her pain—

  • In God’s Intestine and Goner

    The husband, who has accepted Buddhist precepts,

  • At Arlington and Boys

    After the gunfire, the tact of “Taps.”

  • Heat Lightning

    Before the fireflies and whiskey