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  • Spell

    Unlikely find in a thrift store’s back bin:

  • Still Life with Clouds and Eyes on the Prize

    Many white ones

  • Bah!

    It is well-past old hat and hurt

  • Five Orgasms after reading Lydia Davis

    You are sleeping beside me, but I can’t sleep, not in this roadside hotel smelling of new carpet and cigarettes. It’s late.

  • Sleep

    There is a room, and inside the room

  • CATAFALQUE

    Angel of the gap thrills to floodwaters

  • Classmate

    I was at the beach talking with someone else

  • Three Poems

    I am apprehensive tonight as if the fog from the drive

  • Sharp Noises at Night

    When I travel to the Midwest, trains

  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • The Last Time I Saw My Mother Before the Pandemic, #Me Too & Ready

    was on Valentine’s Day 2020. The residents who were able to sit up

  • SPITE FENCE | THE HUMAN CANARY

    My neighbor forced his abutter