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Poems

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  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain

  • Blond for All the Boys

    Frank Ocean didn’t mean anything to me till Dave said check

  • Henry’s Song

    Sometimes sitting in a friend's backyard on a fall evening

  • Widow

    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone

  • What is Love in Tennis, and What is Love | Nude from Here to Eternity

    If there’s personality in how you jump, then I wonder about

  • Boys’ Room

    French doors, curtains, panes of glass.

  • Preludes and Fugues, Cycle C

    Watch your cat leap up in fright and flee

  • Far Country

    When you were in that country

  • He Was Amazed

    He was amazed by the curve of his life. What he thought unique had made its arc like any other, as if life had

  • MARATHON | SHORELINE

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

  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a

  • from Nothing in the Dark

    My mother would assuage my childhood night-fears by saying There's nothing in the dark that you can't see during