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  • Three Poems

    They watch her watching them, the spirits.
  • Three Poems

    His Majesty’s flock of Spanish sheep at Kew is most grievously afflicted...
  • Three Poems

    After we moved to Tiny Town, Mom started selling huge Egyptian harps that were larger than the tiny houses.
  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”
  • Three Poems

    Lavishly robed and turbaned, the palmist
  • Three Poems

    came, still in her cremation box, when we threw her
  • Three Poems

    Woman in Drugstore, Receptionist, Counter Lady with Change for a Quarter, Clubwoman, Saleslady, Train Passenger
  • Three Poems

    Typos   Word instead of wood but, sodden, it smoked when it burned. I wrote god for good who was, once–– in my childhood years, crowned with the nimbus of that capital G–– but now tends to be a placeholder for nightmare, tears. Seeking solace in the pastoral, but grove came out as grave and the lymph nodes, irradiated, naked

  • Three Poems

    I had not thought of her until many years later driving on White Lightning Road with my son.
  • Three Poems

    Somewhere in Brooklyn, a nurse walks out of the hospital where I was born,
  • Three Poems

    We're headed to a stack of paper we call a reem
  • Three Poems and a Translation

    In life I was chasing a deer. In sleep the deer