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  • The Old Pythagorean | Wish You Were Here

    The Scottish sheep farmer John Williamson espoused the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis, which held that

  • War Poems

    Mangled tanks at rest on the roadway's shoulder.

  • Three Poems

    I remember a ditch of cattails, learning their names. How they rose by the bridge

  • To a Soldier in Ukraine

    A soldier must know three things—

  • The Last Widow | The Last Mirror

    The last widow misses men. The last widow misses her husband

  • The Bahá’í School

    It stood at the top of a steep hill that sloped all the way down to the Pisquataqua River, which even then I knew was tidal.

  • Spam Risk

    It was always a risk.

  • Trás-Os-Montes

    Tiny and bent over

  • 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

  • The Wind Cried Mary  

    In 1967 when Hendrix coaxed, Are you experienced?

  • My Groundhog

    I had a groundhog in my back yard.

  • In the Vanguard

    It takes a few notes, a very few notes, to undo the bare bones of a person. Where formerly we were piecework in a