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  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Shakedown, Sleeping Mother and The Touch

    On Main Street, two cops stop me in front of the tire store. One is big and burly and the other is lean

  • I prefer synthetic grass

    no roots no worm

  • My Love

    Place your hand, my love, against my heart

  • Our Bodies Ourselves

    No one would sit by Vicky Syme

  • Soft Song

    Nothing about you is soft,

  • And After the Ark

    what was left behind was astounding:

  • Three Poems

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

  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,

  • Blueshift

    In another life I’m a cosmologist, lungs snow-

  • From Toying

    Like Tiny Tears

  • For Night to Fall

    You could tell from the start that the best