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  • Agreeable Subjects

    When a past father of mine makes an appearance

  • The Occupant Imagines the House as a Great Fish & Eight Things…

    It has already swallowed a century, each year a silver iridescent scale.  For eight, she has lived in its belly,

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

    Up on stage in the three-quarters empty auditorium,

  • My Fifth Tattoo at the Darkstar Ink Parlor

    It takes a long time to get a tattoo

  • DEATH MARCH

    Carry her the way it has to hurt:

  • Four Poems

    A sudden pain flares in in my head like a match flaring into darkness: my mother is dying.

  • Coal Bin

    Some witchy and slinky,

  • The Child and I

    I wanted to go fishing one day,

  • Stammer  (2 pp)

    Was I hatched from an egg, fostered by birds

  • Lion Cub & Whales

    We’d taken to being clever, or is that merely mischievous?

  • Three Poems

    I had not thought of her until many years later driving on White Lightning Road with my son.

  • The Rosy Tones

    the rosy tones