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  • Ödön von Horváth | Brief Incident in Short a, Long a, and Schwa | My Friend’s Creation | Contingency (Vs. Necessity)

    Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant.  Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and

  • Polar Bear & Memento Mori: Stradivarius

    I am relieved. For twenty-seven years,

  • Once We Were

    once we were immigrants

  • Pain & Ophelia and the Nine-and-Fifty Swans

    Where to stand

  • From Inches Away

    From inches away his finger can’t miss

  • Synecdoche, New York

    When you meet

  • LITTLE PIECES OF STRING TOO SMALL TO BE USED | INCEST | HER LISTS | BIRD SONGS

    Granny's label on a box in her attic.

  • On Beauty and To the Phaistos Disc

    I have a tree outside my house. I don’t know what kind—in spring, it blooms, gorgeous.

  • Square of Beveled Glass

    Hag––first thought.

  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”

  • This Is the Day the Lord Has Made

    This is the day the Lord has made,

  • End in Itself

    All veins point to a heart in depleted rivers, in branches,