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  • Polar Bear & Memento Mori: Stradivarius

    I am relieved. For twenty-seven years,

  • Elegy & Brooklyn, 1957

    My brother told me we would join the Wide

  • Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

    On the periodic table, it is the densest of elements. It does not refract or reflect, but absorbs all

  • Observatory at the Prison

    The day is warm, so we take chips and pop from the visitation-room vending machines to a

  • Book of Dolls

    The psychoanalyst has left the building

  • Salvation, in B#

    Bigtime Baltimore, new

  • Old Lithographed Landscape & Woolgathering

    A causeway wavers all the tilted days

  • Six Makeshift Trees Around My Bathtub

    Above our heads a vertical shadow

  • Excerpts from Little Goldie in America

    One more day, one more hour, play the good pig.

  • Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

    No beach here—just the sea

  • The Afterlife

    After life, pelicans glide above a shut- down bridge.

  • Madonna in Blue

    An aneurism in the sun, a gravity-wave.