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  • THE SECRET OF TIME MEETS A STRANGER

    You look familiar.

  • Survival Rate | 1st Love

    When at customs I don’t declare

  • The Magician and HER

    This is how you peel back layers of bees

  • Things I’ve Discovered in Hong Kong

    Semantics: clue that Trappist Dairy Milk Drink is not milk—had I read the label—

  • Apologetics

    A host of angels or a compass of cherubim

  • Stages on a Journey Westward

    All the mapmakers in history

  • Oak Leaves as Young Musicians and Longing

    Frosted-glass window lit orange.

  • Three Poems

    I was four or five, bored by the dull terrain

  • From the Ass’s Mouth: A Theory of the Leisure Class

    Up on stage in the three-quarters empty auditorium,

  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.

  • Soldier’s Wife in the Aftermath

    After the great war I stepped inside

  • Two Poems

    Black, faux-leather cover with gold trim—