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  • New Music: Antlia and Aquarius, from OF THE NEAR AND FAR

    I’ve always been captivated by the night sky, endlessly wondering about what lies beyond.

  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English

  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—

  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon

  • A Thin Membrane and For the New Parent

    I knew she had a glass eye though she never spoke of it

  • Showering Behind the Zodiac’s Curtain

    When blue hangs around me, I am

  • Two Poems

    War catches a man with a shopping bag

  • The Dangers of Contemplation

    Follow the seagull aloft

  • Others & Kents

    They stopped the car on the crest of Coleman Valley Road to show his sister and her husband the Pacific view.

  • SunRiders

    Lucy!

  • Nurse at a Bus Stop

    The slow traffic takes a good long look.

  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,