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  • Food of Love & Thing-in-Itself

    If the vamp and rub of planets,

  • Pier

    If the pier is two hundred and fifty words long, it is important

  • WHY WE NEED UNIONS

    If the lion wants more

  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine

  • That’s How We Met translated by Chenxin Jiang

    If only I didn’t have to grow up

  • Last Words

    If only for those you leave behind,

  • A SHOUT FROM THE DARK

    If like a Buddhist I accepted the world

  • Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord

    If it was a wedding instead of war,

  • Of Course

    If I wake at 3, ephemerality

  • Missing

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

  • Burial Arrangements

    If I have to be buried at all,

  • Mourning and Melancholia

    If I had two dogs,