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  • From Pendant que Perceval tombait, by Tania Langlais, translated from French by Jessica Cuello

    you don’t know how to write with lightness

  • Oloid and Pareidolia

    Saturday, awake to the raw April outside. A dream that was on my tongue is gone with a swallow.

  • PASTORAL

    The circle lies unbroken, and the lord is by and by.

  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,

  • Idea for a Screenplay *

    A man sits on his porch and reads aloud to the yard, to some plants and to some birds, his feelings of paranoia, anger

  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors

  • Wrapped in Paper and String

    Monsters crawl in our brains,

  • Storm Song, Monarch, Sultry Night and Galveston, 1900

    Last night heat

  • Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus | I’m sure some animals negotiate and plea.  I’m sure there’s a hard winter’s compromise | Lou Reed sings “Berlin,” a voice that has in it paradise if paradise was broken

    Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus

  • The Rosy Tones

    the rosy tones

  • Alone at the New Year

    An instant of awe, then, afterwards,

  • Genital Epistemology

    don’t it make you snicker how desire goes