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  • Father Enters the Water | Please Mr. Wasp | Ageing

    In life, he would walk into the water slowly until it reached his waist and stand there for a while, his arms out to the

  • To Fire

    In my backyard, huddled over my magnifying

  • Charcoal | Medicine and Magazines

    In my brown leather bag:

  • Family Way

    In my family, when any one of the women of my grandmother’s generation dreamt of fish she would get on the phone to

  • Poetry

    In my new room upstairs,

  • Three Dances | Early Warning System

    In North Carolina

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,

  • RODIN, “Hand with Small Torso, Bronze” | Rodin’s “The Cathedral”

    In Paris you can see his drawer of hands.

  • Fatherless Daughters

    In Springtime, abandoned daughters burst like myopic butterflies with binoculars

  • Perspective and Chosen by the Lion

    In the bedroom, the man disentangles his limbs from those of another.

  • Ubi Sunt

    In the bottom left corner of Pennsylvania,

  • Lobsters | Turkey Vultures

    In the depths of the sea they will eat the sea and outgrow the world’s largest pot.