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  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,
  • Notes on an Illness in Spain & the grist of gratitude is like ingratitude

    The sinuous ripple of a well-broken in fan, a soft hand
  • Ekaterina Derisheva’s “in the ‘war’ mode” and “Houses Discuss” translated by Tatiana Retivov

    while they sort out who helped more
  • Riding the Metro-North New Haven Line and Black Mountain Music

    The question is what kind of sausage are they—
  • Three Poems

    Heat, filthy, gut-sick heat in my city’s cobblestone streets.
  • SAY

    Says her Tarot reader says
  • Six Makeshift Trees Around My Bathtub

    Above our heads a vertical shadow
  • The Mercies of Noah’s Wife

    Among the most measly of beasts, she has her pets,
  • BIRD

    I lived between the hemisphere of songbirds and the hemisphere
  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,
  • Vernissage

    Survivors of a volcanic explosion, cross-
  • What We Work At | Look to the Side

    What we work at