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  • The Neighbor’s War and Walking Backwards

    Through my kitchen window I can watch

  • 05-08 | 07-03 | 07-24 Three from The Ringing of the Rain has a Forgiving Grace

    We all become the raindrops’ filling in the blanks

  • Dear American Amnesia

    I know you are only trying to make

  • Far Country

    When you were in that country

  • A Snow Woman

    A window on a side yard in winter.

  • At the Frick Collection in New York City

    Such a small work by Giambattista Tiepolo, Perseus and Andromeda

  • Kabuki

    A widow in Mississippi kept them in glass cases,

  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth

  • A Nun to be Named

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

  • Ode to Scars

    The scars on others’ faces draw me to them.

  • Bear and the Crows

    So many in the winter trees they caw

  • Home Life

    I was sitting still in an armchair