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Poems

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  • The Only One

    In the stories of old there were always three.

  • The Orders of the Ordinary

    Death seemed no more

  • The Other Hemisphere & Like California

    It shut us up, the new, dumbed us

  • The Pair

    Here’s how they climbed out of the nights’ custody.

  • The Palm Reader & Fire Horse

    These blithe lines

  • The Park from Above

    What scared them? Scores of wild green parrots

  • The Path of Non-Attachment

    Andrew totaled my car, leveled the house,

  • The Peripheral Position of the Sun

    A young woman roars, laughs, splashes the face of a young man, nears the shore where the blinking lights of fireflies

  • The Piece

    Some years ago I painted the room gray.

  • The Plum

    A teacher I loved

  • The Plumber is Here

    The plumber is here

  • The Podium

    He is bilious, potty-mouthed, at once puffy and rachitic. He sways, eyes red and rheumy as September strawberries.