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  • St. Bonaventure and Spring Birthday Romance

    Merton’s last stop in the world

  • Cataclysmic Paternity

    There’s the you at birth and the you that’s taught and the you you concocted.

  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • Happy Hour & Babies Cry at 5:03 pm

    Marcy lets us play

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

    Five ceramic half-ducks flew up the wall.

  • Pensé Que Estabas Muerto

    but your deaths existed the nights you didn’t come home.

  • Promiscuous and Thanking My Breasts

    Promiscuous is what my mother

  • Great Pond

    Tom swims

  • Portrait | The Traveler

    Recollections of my infancy: a patio in Seville,

  • The Studio

    The palette down left in the foreground,

  • A Brief Portfolio of Selected Poems by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers

    I admire the definition of poetry in Beasts, Men, and Gods, the inexhaustible book by Ossendowski.

  • Circumference & Earthrise

    Vanilla farmers in Madagascar sit in the dark with rifles;