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  • Good Stuff | A Love Letter from Larkin

    There’s some good stuff on Youtube, someone writes.

  • View From a Shrinking Floe

    Beyond the boats freed from the dripping ice

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Your Brother’s Face

    You believe your brother will come down

  • Seeking Alpha

    Praise for the one who can take us above

  • Storm Song, Monarch, Sultry Night and Galveston, 1900

    Last night heat

  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.

  • Three Poems

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

  • OVER THE MOON

    Five a.m.—the soft percussion of the rain

  • 80 Words for Rosmarie Waldrop at 80

    sojourner

  • Unexceptional

    Except we were in love, or so it seemed.

  • Death Machine

    because the dead couldn’t speak