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  • VANISHING POINT

    I learned it in art class, second grade,

  • Annunciation

    I learned to hide the wings, almost immediately,

  • Derealization

    I left my body in Barnes & Noble

  • After the Paris Bombings

    I lent my Daily Missal, which had been published before they dropped the Latin, to Robin. Though she had been

  • The Summer House

    I let the envelope fall to the floor unopened,

  • Busy bees | Torture

    I like being around people who believe

  • Light and Dark

    I like that the word light is powerful and yet so gentle, like a good man.

  • Family Once Removed and Who Cooks for You?

    I like to be alone

  • The Loneliness of His Death

    I like to think there’s a place where all the poets go

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • BIRD

    I lived between the hemisphere of songbirds and the hemisphere

  • YAWP

    I long to move closer