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  • 80 Words for Rosmarie Waldrop at 80

    sojourner

  • Because What Else Could I Do

    I alone in a restaurant

  • The Lord Is a Man of War | Far Desert Region | The Day-Shift Sleeps, | [Does the war want

    The Lord is a man of war

  • Shot | Total Eclipse

    Don’t be distracted by

  • Promiscuous and Thanking My Breasts

    Promiscuous is what my mother

  • grief being a swatch of blue & grief being that song from childhood & grief being a pitched tent

    a rectangle in an unborn son’s room

  • The Conscious Fruit Fly

    This means fruit fly the scholar.

  • The Etymology of “Alaasa” [علاسة]

    In 2006, the word

  • A Poem and Two Fables

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay,

  • 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.

  • Wilderness

    The mind is a wilderness like Bartram’s, razed, cemented over, marked by rows

  • MARATHON | SHORELINE

    Jesus hears a swarm of bees beneath his porch. His television