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  • To Be That Boy, to Be That Horse

    I’ve watched a shy horse

  • The Drowned and the Saved

    If all of us were to try to kill ourselves at least once, then all of us would know nothing more than that: which is why

  • The Romantic Poets

    If anybody needs a head

  • Stopping At Whole Foods on a Snowy Evening

    If commerce, too, has its music, then it’s in kumquat, pine nut, Arctic char,

  • LOOKING FOR ZAGAJEWSKI UNDER THE COUCH

    If his book of poems isn’t there

  • The Consultation Business

    If I consult the Philosopher’s Tarot to guide my thought

  • Ultimatum

    If I forget one character a day

  • What a Man Wants is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue

    If I had that power,

  • Mourning and Melancholia

    If I had two dogs,

  • Burial Arrangements

    If I have to be buried at all,

  • Missing

    If I told you simply that the bed in the Baptist Hospital

  • Of Course

    If I wake at 3, ephemerality