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  • My Friend, Nice Socks & The Last Dance

    My friend wanted to have breakfast at the local strip club.

  • My Heart in Evening

    In the evening one hears the sharp shrieks of bats.

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Faces pass by like unheard explanations

  • Relapse

    I loved bar light,

  • Waiting for Someone

    Dark gray suit, dark green tie, dark

  • Train to Naples and “It’s Awful Plain”

    Five ceramic half-ducks flew up the wall.

  • One of a Series

    My daughter sees the sky from another angle, slate-blue reflected in a lake called living. 

  • A Love Poem While Dissolving

    I’m trying to say I love you, but Buckminster Fuller declared

  • Concussion Test

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

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Yahrzeit

    This was the woman who remembered her childhood.

  • Human Technology

    Sunlit & dangerous, this country road.