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  • How to Pray

    Falling down on your knees is the easy part, like drinking

  • How to Get Divorced

    STEP 1: For 20 years, swallow everything. Eat until you are the heaviest pillow on the

  • How the West Was Won and Crack in the World

    Build a garage on the roof

  • How Self-Consciousness Counts

    Why in hell should anyone understand

  • How Sad

    Their kisses were bitterly thin,

  • HOW IT IS WITH THE MEEK

    They are pulverized into earth

  • How It Is

    Say how it is

  • How I Felt the First Time I Tried It

    Like a clam’s tongue muscling

  • Houses

    Under the cold light of the chintzy white crown chandelier, I’d lean one upright card again

  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,

  • House of Sorrow, Vessel of Anarchy, I Will Not Name It Except to Say, Golem

    Once I made a box to put a man in.

  • House of Clouds | Song

    Clouds float over Giudecca  Island,