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  • Loosestrife

    The cities changed hands. In the course

  • Standing by a Coppice Gate, Reading “The Darkling Thrush”

    The city gate loomed at century’s end,

  • Two Poems

    The clarity of familiar faces

  • The Gifts

    The closet where the black sweaters hang. Where the game of backgammon is played

  • PROTECT YOUR HOME (Interpret It Well), a short film with music by Ches Smith

    The composition has two movements, one slow and one fast.

  • Babel’s Artifacts

    The construction proved without

  • Steer’s Head Triptych

    the cowboy cut, the wrangler,

  • Mirror of the Invisible World

    The crown of a milk tooth in a curve of jaw

  • Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring

    The cyclist who’s rushing for the usual gold

  • Flowers in a Vase

    The dahlias' unopened buds poke like periscopes above their clownish mass

  • Ars Poetica

    The dark night caught Jerome by surprise

  • FOR MATS AND LAILA

    The Date Line lies motionless between Samoa and Tonga, but the Midnight Line glides across the ocean and islands and rooftops of huts.