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  • Notes on an Illness in Spain & the grist of gratitude is like ingratitude

    The sinuous ripple of a well-broken in fan, a soft hand

  • AFTER THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA

    The sky becomes sickly,

  • Vesper

    The sky is blue for reasons other than atmospheric ones.

  • Nurse at a Bus Stop

    The slow traffic takes a good long look.

  • Cooking in Ashes

    The smile is missing; no joy around the eyes.

  • Natural History of the Soul

    The song thrush hops, runs, stands,

  • Bird of Paradise

    The songs of the mariachi in the park

  • Toussaint

    The soul, you said, is this sour wind, or this empty glass, the tiny steps of insects, these white iron

  • Aspect

    The spirit’s simulacra have obtained

  • Two Poems translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury

    The still object Kazuo Ohno caressed is already growing old

  • Willem Van de Velde the Younger, Ships in a Gale (1660) and Matsumura Goshun, Crab (late 18th century)

    The storm dissolves the difference between wave,

  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed