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  • Yet Another Life

    And then one day I was no longer up

  • Trudy Cooks Fish and The General

    The fish seemed fresh that night, as if they’d been caught off the coast near Zanzibar

  • A Hole in My Backyard

    I get very nervous, I admit.

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • White Zinfandel

    Again last night I dreamed the dream called Waiter.

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I said goodbye to a friend who left a hole filled

  • From Night, by Ennio Moltedo, translated from Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz

    Can we go on like this?

  • Two Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya translated from Russian by Boris Dralyuk

    The thought that we might

  • SunRiders

    Lucy!

  • Lazarus

    She sucks the cigarette

  • Braid Him Into the Earth

    Knee-high coffin of wicker, earth-boat floating through the woods.