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  • The List

    Branches shiver as if a wand

  • Half of Life

    The land with yellow pears

  • Excerpts from Little Goldie in America

    One more day, one more hour, play the good pig.

  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead

    Surely she would want to hear one final song, something from the Carpathians, something folkloric about flying

  • Cigar Box Banjo

    Blind Willie Johnson could coax

  • So Much More Mournful than Before

    This morning, remembering the end

  • The Mystery

    The mystery of our time

  • Concussion Test

    Do you feel heartsick for aboriginal (original) people wearing baseball caps?

  • Plait

    When I first knotted my hair against the coming of winter, I had grown tired of playing jacks and didn’t yet find boys

  • Judith Beheading Holofernes

    No one ever read the Book of Judith to a slave—

  • Two Poems

    Black, faux-leather cover with gold trim—

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who