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  • The Classics

    At 10, I studied Vera Ellen’s legs

  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,

  • Barn Red

    Home alone, I swirl on scarlet lipstick and forget that I did,

  • Molt & Clean Water Act

    Neither here nor there, you don’t fit. 

  • Mother of Invention | The Butcher Coat

    Who first fashioned fishnet stocking

  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, darkening in maple shade.

  • Near the Sea

    All manner of birds love this windbreak hedge

  • Arrow Boy

    They see her as a genie in a pager.

  • Remembering Lethe

    Yesterday, a friend reached out:

  • Tenderly

    I see how you climb!

  • ON EMPATHY

    Wary of the verb  “empathize”—together with its noun “empathy” and adjective

  • In God’s Intestine and Goner

    The husband, who has accepted Buddhist precepts,