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  • Confusing Myself with the Whippoorwill

    Today, I was a madness of regrettable actions. At the convenience store, I eyed the cashiers warily as they slouched in

  • Unbeckoning Glass and Time Faking Surprises

    This color is exhaled smoke from a bummed cigarette, a stray cloud for the sky.

  • Pandemic Fugue

    These are the skies of my childhood

  • The Insurgency of Tears is to Eradicate Sadness and Hold Joy as Close as the Moon

    Mike’s at The Whitney.

  • Home

    Those last days in Hollywood—

  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, fading into maple shade.

  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five

  • A MORAL VICTORY IS STILL A DEFEAT

    It was late in the year and late in the day,

  • Uplight

    The uplight is where I want to be, above and looking, and looking over.

  • Close to now

    I should have said from the beginning that I plant the black nasturtiums because they are the saddest

  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!

  • Over

    Suddenly, it’s over, and I hear!