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  • Ars Poetica

    The shell of the papershell pecan can easily be broken

  • After Our Parents Get Divorced, Our Mother Buys an Ivy Stencil

    In the small white bedroom

  • The Freud Museum

    It’s 1938. Here’s moss on red brick

  • At Once People at the End of Their Lives

    come from common spaces to move around

  • For the Child Molester

    Let him sleep right through it—

  • SOMETHING LIKE A WING

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he hid in his

  • I Offer This Container

    Monkeys of fresh rage born again—

  • SCENE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH IN A DREAM

    What was I doing in my childhood room again?

  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention

  • Moss City

    City down to the last nuance is moss,

  • On the Subject of the Navel

    Very little has been written

  • Bending Truth to Advantage

    From Robert Lowell’s poem “Those Before Us,” these final lines: “Pardon them for existing.