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  • Mouth & Nomadic Reverie

    Molar: a grinding tooth at the back of a mammal’s mouth.

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • What, Me?

    When we’re in a car together I worry we’ll die and the world will lose its role models.

  • Almost and Caught Out

    Cows and sheep segregate themselves

  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,

  • NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

    This is No Country for Old Men. The young

  • RODIN, “Hand with Small Torso, Bronze” | Rodin’s “The Cathedral”

    In Paris you can see his drawer of hands.

  • St. Bonaventure and Spring Birthday Romance

    Merton’s last stop in the world

  • The Podium

    He is bilious, potty-mouthed, at once puffy and rachitic. He sways, eyes red and rheumy as September strawberries.

  • Two Stories and a Poem

    Do you have a canned ham?

  • Back to Brooklyn Bridge | Second Skin

    tears are intuition

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

    Where to stand