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  • Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland

    Your poems make me want to write my poems

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • Disseminate

    Plums to the Garden of Eden. Their flesh

  • The Summer House

    I let the envelope fall to the floor unopened,

  • Electric Eyes of Night

    Three lanterns fill your window with deception.

  • Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

    No beach here—just the sea

  • The Fortieth Day | Pussy Riot/Want/Don’t/Want

    Now she called forth nights of a different kind of brilliance when the moon wrapped every thing with light—

  • Trudy Cooks Fish and The General

    The fish seemed fresh that night, as if they’d been caught off the coast near Zanzibar

  • Velvetleaf

    Tick of sweet clover, swinecress parasite, did you have a music

  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,

  • I’m Not Waiting and Out of the Past

    I’m no longer waiting for the dunes of Tulum,

  • when it is time

    you pass that bridge