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  • Eight Poems

    An Amazon can be used for so much. The ashtray

  • A Convalescent Bed in a Field of Yellow Tulips

    Your wires trail into a gopher hole.

  • Embraced

    I have visited an ancient redwood and heard it creak

  • The One Crying in English Class

    From time to time, I still get angry

  • Into the Flame

    And you lay for decades counting sheep

  • Untitled

    it's harder to be patient when you're helpless

  • 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.

  • Shame

    Why did I want a Queen Conch shell

  • Suburban Landscape, Summer

    Me, young and girlish, flesh not yet mourning.

  • On the Banks of the Allegheny

    We had started over again—

  • Incident in the Park

    Working back from the moment I rose off the bench,

  • Physics & Green Room

    Was Jesus materializing inside a locked room