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  • The Wind Cried Mary  

    In 1967 when Hendrix coaxed, Are you experienced?

  • The Window & On Turning 79

    I check the den window a few times each day

  • The Window Light, The Dead Boy Isn’t Dad & The Window Light Again

    Painting around the windowsill

  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five

  • The World Provides

    Someone somewhere must always be

  • The Worm

    The sun: a worm with a spring withy in its jaws.

  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.

  • Therapon, III, 5 

    …you whose waters never breathe   whose

  • Thetis

    We see her through her element, not

  • Things forgotten

    once in another city,

  • Things I’ve Discovered in Hong Kong

    Semantics: clue that Trappist Dairy Milk Drink is not milk—had I read the label—

  • Thinly Veiled

    In Alabama I learnt the difference between the state flag and the battle flag