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  • 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

  • Jukkasjärvi, Sweden | Hämeenkyrö, Finland

    It flew like a little bird

  • After Callimachus

    Goddess of parturition, listen when Cleo

  • The Public Servants and Amateur

    To be delivered by a sad man standing in a single light.

  • Anti-Gravity Time Machine

    From the front stoop it’s the 21st century;

  • How Sad

    Their kisses were bitterly thin,

  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write

  • Houses

    Under the cold light of the chintzy white crown chandelier, I’d lean one upright card again

  • The Old Pythagorean | Wish You Were Here

    The Scottish sheep farmer John Williamson espoused the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis, which held that

  • Almost and Caught Out

    Cows and sheep segregate themselves

  • Bailed Out

    And once we climbed over the wire fence

  • Three Poems

    His Majesty’s flock of Spanish sheep at Kew is most grievously afflicted...