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  • What, Me?

    When we’re in a car together I worry we’ll die and the world will lose its role models.

  • The Central

    When we were hungry and my mother was

  • Queen of the Lot

    When was the last time I watched The Letter

  • Could Someone Please Check on My Mother?

    When the young man thought about the history of poetry

  • The Wayfarer

    When the wings of the triptych are open as

  • A Different Origin

    When the snake in Eden approached Eve

  • Zacharia, Malachi

    When the shepherd is stricken

  • Old Man Swimming

    When the Old Man of the Sea shapeshifting on the bottom

  • A Brief Portfolio

    When the light goes out, and the book is set down

  • Rain Sonnets

    When the bear finally arrives, he’s starving. He wants whatever’s in my little blue basket, the Tupperware and the

  • Two poems by Muyaka bin Haji, (1776—1840)

    When she lays eggs, they’re not nurtured even if brooding them succeeds.

  • Tails | On the Other Side

    When our tails fell off, we had nothing to wag or wave behind us, nothing to curl up or