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  • Piano Epistemology, Apostrophes and Beauty

    I’m pretty sure this piano exists,

  • Dear— and On Misreading a Line by Mario de Andrade

    Scorch splinter shard and itch  Dear glitch

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • The Reckoning and 3AM

    Shadows stretch across the pine floor

  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not

  • August 3rd

    After twenty horrific minutes, I think she

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Not built to just do it

  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,

  • Unrest or What the French Horn Can Teach You

    To master the French Horn, you need lips of steel

  • Ode to Hands translated from Spanish by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Juan Suárez Proaño

    Nothing can hide from hands

  • Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out

    Not an issue of ‘variety’, of red, brown, grey and black,

  • The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title

    Over distilleries’ rooftops, angels tipple