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  • Observatory at the Prison

    The day is warm, so we take chips and pop from the visitation-room vending machines to a

  • Mother, at Last

    You were Scarlett O’Hara

  • Serial

    I figure four times, you make it five

  • Elephant Memory

    A cold sunny morning in Cambridge. Pragmatical

  • Aunt Rolla

    She had the softest face

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • A Brief Portfolio

    As if overnight, the flowering pear tree

  • The Dragonfly

    Diamond-crusted wings flying an armored syringe

  • Tolstoi Learned to Ride a Bike at an Age When Most of Us Cash in Chips by Annette Barnes & Stuart Friebert

    There we were, watching the parade, while he climbed up

  • Cento for the Turn of the Year

    Assume nothing. Take a position:

  • Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines

    Sea otters sun themselves on harbor rocks,

  • Birds in the Night

    The French government, or was it the English government,