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  • Why I Started Writing a Novel

    Earlier today I started writing a novel out of the simple

  • Song

    It wasn’t a goat’s head swaying in the tree. It was a ferret

  • The Night Dancers

    Praise the shadows that slither up candlelit walls

  • Before Things Got Bad

    After the mayor closed all the parks

  • The One Crying in English Class

    From time to time, I still get angry

  • Three Poems

    They watch her watching them, the spirits.

  • The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title

    Over distilleries’ rooftops, angels tipple

  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth

  • ALCHEMICAL MEDITATION

    It abides in secret on my pencil tip—

  • On the Grounds of the Zendo

    The face of the Buddha’s so smooth, she whispered,

  • Don’t Know Much About the French I Took

    I silently disapproved when they said, “Let’s go French

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

    In the small white bedroom