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  • Sunday in Gdansk

    In the Gdansk inner harbor

  • AFTER THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA

    The sky becomes sickly,

  • OLD HUSBAND’S TALES

    I’m one who tells old husbands’ tales, not wives’,

  • The Host of Turns

    We were gathered in this kind of circus-tent,

  • A Nun to be Named

    I’ve been thinking about the nun who wouldn’t let me pee in fifth grade.

  • Concussion Test

    Do you feel heartsick for aboriginal (original) people wearing baseball caps?

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Brasserie and An Annunciation of Blue

    We’re somehow in Closerie des Lilas,

  • A Brief Portfolio: Heaney in an Irish Pub & Other Poems

    Heaney in an Irish Pub, Washington, DC, Hunger, In the Bishop's Garden:  Hide and Seek and Lost in China

  • High Finance

    You looked up and saw across the field

  • Road Trip

    Over the singed and brittle roadside stalks,

  • 3:14 PM

    This blue pen I am holding