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Poems

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  • Small Hut

    I know you only in echo,

  • A Brief Portfolio

    the afternoons are perfect

  • The Happiness on the Other Side of Happiness

    Kids swing and old men sit. That's the way

  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.

  • Three Ghazals

    When I woke in the night, I walked to the center of the dream.

  • I’m Going to Bed When You Go to Bed

    Let someone else learn the borders of every country’s will,

  • Bee Line

    Maybe the crow flies

  • SEND A SEARCH PARTY | FIRST SNOWFALL | A FINAL WALK WITH MY NEPHEW

    My joints are full of dewy lights

  • TAROT: THE EMPRESS

    Earth pours wet, quick scimitars

  • Midsummer Paralysis

    A nerve was severed in my jaw—I remember numbness.

  • Strychnine Tree

    Stranger under this love-sick tree, lapful of terminal clusters

  • Preludes and Fugues, Cycle C

    Watch your cat leap up in fright and flee