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  • After Reading Charles Wright I Turn Out the Light and Listen to the Rain

    Protestant American darkness

  • Little Black Dress and Julia

    Puddled at my feet or ruched

  • Perfect Air

    Put book down

  • Market Day

    Python belt on my jeans.

  • Found Poem: “Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who Is Being Attacked Where,” NYT, April 3, 2021 

    Queens | A 47-year-old man and his 10-year-old son

  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write

  • SHALL BEAR UPON HIS SHOULDER IN THE TWILIGHT

    Reaching from history, that alpenglow, towards the dead whose clothes I wear

  • How to Topple a Kingdom

    Read overly-detailed novels.  Prefer

  • Last Poem

    Reader, today

  • On Being Mused Upon

    Reading his poems, you recognize yourself

  • Portrait | The Traveler

    Recollections of my infancy: a patio in Seville,

  • Glimmer Train | Strike-Slip

    Redwinged blackbirds in the cattail pond—