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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

  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—

  • Practicing Eights

    After I almost died, it was hard

  • More Reason

    Though you may be a scribe in ancient Egypt

  • Truce, Class Notes & On Rereading the 23rd Psalm

    My high school class of 1950

  • Shifts and Song for Sally

    Middle school cafeteria duty monitoring ungainly, dour

  • Dear Creature

    Because of what I did

  • Joint Effort

    Let the hunchback lie hump down

  • On Breathing and Not Breathing—The Sequence

    Once, a man stopped breathing

  • A Nun to be Named

    I’ve been thinking about the nun who wouldn’t let me pee in fifth grade.

  • The Park from Above

    What scared them? Scores of wild green parrots

  • Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    Adila watches as evening falls