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Poems

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  • Bright in June Sun

    The young man, kneeling at his mother’s tomb, lays red tulips there,

  • Brothers

    Who eats with a jaw half-cranked with counterweight

  • Resumé

    Families shame you;

  • Timetable

    Somebody dies, for example, or is gone

  • Great Pond

    Tom swims

  • Other People’s Pain & Charade

    Remember her eating pad thai and grimacing

  • Four a.m. and 40 Years Later

    Driving into my old city yesterday

  • Soft Song

    Nothing about you is soft,

  • The Age of the Onion

    The onion is a Book of Revelations, diced to proverb-size.

  • Throughway and Passage

    Faces, facing one another on the bus.

  • In a Field, at Sunset

    When he asked if I still loved him, I didn’t answer

  • The Clacklet

    Buttons taken from a sewing box