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  • Reality Check

    The orgasm likes the dusk best, the time of day

  • Where Birds Sleep 

    It goes down and the birds go to sleep.

  • Of Weeping

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,

  • Double Effect: December 31

    the bridge closes behind you

  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,

  • It’s Not Just Trains

    The ticket office was closing

  • Field Dressing

    Dispatch animal

  • Why the Sphinx Likes Riddles and Episodic

    What she did,

  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,

  • First Words

    In the marriage booth at sleep-away camp,

  • You Don’t Travel Light, Life

    is a cumbersome business.

  • Q&A

    When you take off your mask, what is your true address