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  • My Polish and Another Poem

    When I try to thank it, it shushes me. Then illuminates my way to the Exit.

  • Soul Mate

    When I was a girl, I had a dirty soul.

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Heretical Physics & Mermaid Rescued by EMTs in Colorado

    When I was englobed in subatomic quarks and bosons floating

  • Movie and Two Little Miners

    When I was ten    they took me into a coal mine

  • God’s Man

    When I was twelve I found it

  • The Sailor’s Love Song and Irish Whiskey

    When I was young I burned to be

  • The Silver Bullet

    When I wasn’t washing my hands, I remembered

  • Three Ghazals

    When I woke in the night, I walked to the center of the dream.

  • Becoming Hat

    When in Rockport— with Rockport—

  • Grade School Cafeteria

    When it has been

  • Odyssey to the Self: Seven Minutes with Susan Rich and Nancy Mitchell

    When my mother took out the small skillet, black and flecked