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  • Reading Julio Cortázar after turning 70

    Years ago, there was your story about a man named John Howell.

  • Practicing Eights

    After I almost died, it was hard

  • Last Christmas

    Your best friend had brain cancer

  • The Fortieth Day | Pussy Riot/Want/Don’t/Want

    Now she called forth nights of a different kind of brilliance when the moon wrapped every thing with light—

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • Vega

    On my bed in late afternoon I am listening

  • Still Life with Clouds and Eyes on the Prize

    Many white ones

  • Ekaterina Derisheva’s “in the ‘war’ mode” and “Houses Discuss” translated by Tatiana Retivov

    while they sort out who helped more

  • Zen Dictionary

    In the Zen Dictionary, intention

  • The Deposition

    I get to school early, take down the crucifix.

  • All the time I pray to Buddha…

    Issa, I killed 8 gophers this fall, held

  • First Days at the Conservancy

    I’m looking out the window—Paula’s window—