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  • Lament Sunburns

    The worst I got on a tar roof, mid-July with a bottle

  • Scales

    I’m off in sixteen different directions

  • Fireworks or Gunfire?

    It’s just somebody sighting his gun—

  • The Excellent Trip

    You thought you’d need a month. You thought you’d need

  • Trompe L’oeil –Not a Painting

    From 30,000 feet

  • Nice Dark One

    Yours is a noble bio, one note

  • A VARIATION | MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED | HART CRANE

    Why ask to know, twin and neighbor,

  • A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches

    Very dark now I put a seed in my mouth but its texture and taste

  • AFTER A FUNERAL

    After the service and reception hour

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,

  • Ars Poetica Über Prompt (Not the Taxi Service)

    Take the worst poem you’ve ever written but that you haven’t

  • No Heaven for the King

    Always in the faintest glow of pleasure, and always