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  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Theatre people who know suppose them to bring good luck.

  • Promiscuous and Thanking My Breasts

    Promiscuous is what my mother

  • Two Poems translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury

    The still object Kazuo Ohno caressed is already growing old

  • After victory — the era of postwar executions

    After victory – the era of postwar executions.

  • Speculation on the Absent God

    As if abandoned

  • Dolls

    The dolls wait for the children  

  • On Brueghel’s the Tower of Bable

    Anybody calling this scheme stupid

  • Unexceptional

    Except we were in love, or so it seemed.

  • Six Blessings and a Curse

    Weigh odds. Pray. Pay bills.

  • The Summer House

    I let the envelope fall to the floor unopened,

  • Sharp Noises at Night

    When I travel to the Midwest, trains