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  • Murder Ballad & A Story of Teeth

    Georg Wilhelm Steller married his sea cow in a simple  ceremony  on a Bering  Island  beach.

  • The Real River

    Gauze gaze, the present’s freeze never sticks.

  • THE LEAVES HAVE NO PITY

    gathering under the porch like abandoned promises,

  • Centerfold of the Year | Centerfold of the Month: Rabbit Season | Centerfold of the Month: Judgment

    Full frontal I stand, knee-high socks and white heels,

  • Oak Leaves as Young Musicians and Longing

    Frosted-glass window lit orange.

  • The One Crying in English Class

    From time to time, I still get angry

  • My Name in Sticks

    From the shallow sledding hill I gathered up

  • Picking Prunes and The Majestic Theatre

    From the ground up is how you rise   

  • Anti-Gravity Time Machine

    From the front stoop it’s the 21st century;

  • Bending Truth to Advantage

    From Robert Lowell’s poem “Those Before Us,” these final lines: “Pardon them for existing.

  • Coda alla Vaccinara | A Dusting

    From Keats’s grave, past the Paladiana and Coyote

  • From Inches Away

    From inches away his finger can’t miss