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Poems

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  • The Next Life and Windpowered

    Sea fog drifting through the pines—

  • That’s How We Met translated by Chenxin Jiang

    If only I didn’t have to grow up

  • Heretical Physics & Mermaid Rescued by EMTs in Colorado

    When I was englobed in subatomic quarks and bosons floating

  • Cigar Box Banjo

    Blind Willie Johnson could coax

  • Four Poems

    Unable to return from my ashes

  • Soldier’s Wife in the Aftermath

    After the great war I stepped inside

  • To a Man in Rags Holding Out a Cup | A 100-year-old Man Asks Me to Write about Something

    I don’t have much

  • Dear Reader Are You Having a Good Day?

    Dear reader are you having a good day?

  • Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

    On the periodic table, it is the densest of elements. It does not refract or reflect, but absorbs all

  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five

  • A Back Road Near Calais, 1961

    A Back Road Near Calais, 1961

  • The Orders of the Ordinary

    Death seemed no more