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  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • For D, reading poems

    When I was a kid, only a flu could buy me

  • Soul Mate

    When I was a girl, I had a dirty soul.

  • My Polish and Another Poem

    When I try to thank it, it shushes me. Then illuminates my way to the Exit.

  • Sharp Noises at Night

    When I travel to the Midwest, trains

  • What is Unknown

    When I tell her I’ve fallen for What Is Unknown, my mother’s face brightens.  “She’ll be a good girlfriend for you,”

  • The Ant’s Plunder

    When I stuck out my hand to grab the iron door handle, a hidden ant attacked my right

  • The Shell

    When I picked it up from the sand

  • Plait

    When I first knotted my hair against the coming of winter, I had grown tired of playing jacks and didn’t yet find boys

  • In the Next Life and The Office of Apology

    When I become the most trusted translator of your poems

  • Leopard Goes Through Hell Villanelle

    When I am sober my brain calls me names. 


  • Killer

    When he saw me coming