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  • THE BEAR IN THE WHEELCHAIR

    The bedside window is cracked a little, for fresh air presumably, and a lopsided venetian blind bangs softly in a

  • Regret

    Later in life, we enter the neighborhood

  • LATE

    The last time my father returned from work

  • Arrow Boy

    They see her as a genie in a pager.

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Hotline

    The calls came in around the clock. A nunnery in Nova Scotia with a broken clavichord.

  • Puritan Watc, Yonder and Birthday

    Longitude was the great mystery

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

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • Nesting & a triptych

    At my parents’ house nothing is in boxes, nothing is packed.

  • Elegy for Jane

    Blue cab grapes clustered on trellis

  • In the Mud Marks Reveal

    another story:

  • No use

    On October 21, 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote one poem that became two.