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  • Lives of the Postmodern Poets

    You were born too late.

  • Owls Was The Most Likely Explanation

    It’s pretty wild to think how long ago

  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.

  • When My Son Is Dead 16 Years

    After you died, my Beautiful boy,

  • Whatever Alights

    A zillion yeses to the titmice at my feeder,

  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed

  • The Rehearsal

    At our first duo rehearsal—Bach’s B-

  • What I learned from ‘Saved by the Bell’

    Only half a dozen people actually exist

  • To the Poets Dropped from the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

    Au revoir, Walter de la Mare!

  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a

  • Market Day

    Python belt on my jeans.

  • Magical Thinking

    My dog does not question