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  • AUDITION

    Once through an ancient stage door, past a sign

  • grief being a swatch of blue & grief being that song from childhood & grief being a pitched tent

    a rectangle in an unborn son’s room

  • A Brief Portfolio

    “What is truth?” Pilate asked.  Before Jesus could answer Pilate was on his way out the door.

  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught

  • 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

  • You Have to Lead the Sheep

    A dream struck a dream

  • The Killing

    While Abraham binds his son’s hands,

  • Musée des Beaux Arts 

    Look at the science, already. 

  • The Departure | The Screamer

    Farewell my pond and all my many doves

  • Melodrama

    A gunshot: the trigger so light

  • 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

  • It Happened at Wind Sings, Trees Whisper Farm

    The wind, broken and wild,