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  • Ebbtide

    He said one day when we are old, we—

  • Of The Heart, A Hymn & Interracial love affair ended by lynching of a man & let there be a song for zero

    Your name is ash

  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,

  • Going Out Staying In

    I’ve done the math of staying in bed,

  • Two Poems

    Save forever my words for the taste of a smoke and disaster,

  • LATE

    The last time my father returned from work

  • How to Topple a Kingdom

    Read overly-detailed novels.  Prefer

  • The Gone and the Going Away

    The world I know keeps going farther

  • Paying a Blind Man to Wash and Wax My Car

    Maybe they’re right, friends who mock me,

  • Auntie Deluvian and Alien On The Ark: Two by Two

    Deep-time they called it when King Dumuzid the Shepherd

  • Manet’s Asparagus

    Naked as an