Poems

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  • Barrage Balloons, Buck Alec, Bird Flu and You

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,
  • Raccoon in a Trap

    The kidskin of his clever paws
  • Where the Robins Took Me and Northern Flicker

    Robins settle on the earth
  • Hello, July 5th!

    The morning is full of embarrassed flowers
  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,
  • Say You’re Don Giovanni

    Say you’re Don Giovanni Giovanni and you make
  • Hanging the Dirty Laundry

    Father's ties were mother’s noose
  • A Brief Portfolio

    I don’t know what the crows were arguing over
  • End of the Century

    We’ve slept too long, and that hasn’t stopped the incidental warping—
  • Three Poems

    These dead again and again
  • Boothill Graveyard and Boyden Cemetery

    mrs suicide : mrs arsenic : mrs dance hall girls quarreling over a man :  mrs descriptive murder in the streets of tombstone
  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”