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  • On Contemplating a Sheep’s Skull

    Skull aged so much in rain and heat,

  • Separation

    Slumbering suburbs, calm depths of summer.

  • FREE VERSE

    Small woods upon an incline

  • Shaft of Light

    Smile behind the lips

  • The Dead, At Home,

    snag on brush and low cactus.

  • Leaving the Big City

    So afterward I sat by the bosphorus blue water and many dazzling

  • Breakfast, the most important poem

    So far, pockets are good

  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.

  • Bear and the Crows

    So many in the winter trees they caw

  • Better Than Heaven

    So many set asides, you say, intemperate

  • the kitchen song

    so strong a wind

  • RETURN OF THE HERO

    So they brought in a bird for him,