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  • False Darkness

    I need the sun to be setting

  • BIRD

    I lived between the hemisphere of songbirds and the hemisphere

  • The Real River

    Gauze gaze, the present’s freeze never sticks.

  • To Isabella Franconati

    After your husband died and the cypress trees,

  • The Beautiful American Word Baby

    Once, I wanted it growled low in the throat

  • A Back Road Near Calais, 1961

    A Back Road Near Calais, 1961

  • Fox and Piñata

    I saw my first movie

  • Building the Boat, Trèboul (1930)

    Half-way, the basket nature of the ship

  • from Nothing in the Dark

    My mother would assuage my childhood night-fears by saying There's nothing in the dark that you can't see during

  • Oak Leaves as Young Musicians and Longing

    Frosted-glass window lit orange.

  • Che Fai Di Bello

    They are burning the fields in

  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The