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  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • Quiet Candy

    After you kicked me out,

  • Quotidian and Carry

    Steak dinners are the worst /you prefer the fatty cut / those white-ribboned slabs from Save-A-Lot

  • Rabbit

    Regard the luckless cotton-tail,

  • Raccoon in a Trap

    The kidskin of his clever paws

  • Rain Sonnets

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

  • Rare Moment

    A clear choice

  • Rats

    Sudden underfoot, this one cries back

  • Reading About Keith Jarrett This Morning in the Paper and Ode to the Table of Contents

    how he probably won’t play in public again

  • Reading Heidegger Brings a Wild Joy

    My discovery of your essential thingness

  • Reading Julio Cortázar after turning 70

    Years ago, there was your story about a man named John Howell.