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  • A Canticle Rehearsal in The Temple and The Waters Do Not Return, Even to Meribà

    Oh, I am tired of my land,

  • 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.

  • Three poems by Li Suo translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein and Henry Zhang

    the cemetery east of river bank road

  • Nurse at a Bus Stop

    The slow traffic takes a good long look.

  • Posthumous Cabin

    And got away to it, and left the work to others

  • Carpe Diem

    You won't live

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • 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

  • Fireworks or Gunfire?

    It’s just somebody sighting his gun—

  • Bedtime Story

    It wasn’t only my father who believed in the romanticism of war

  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • REMEMBERING RAY – AUG. 2,1998 – FOR TESS

    The invitation reads: