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  • Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

    On the periodic table, it is the densest of elements. It does not refract or reflect, but absorbs all

  • The Movie My Murderer Makes

    My murderer sits in row F, seat 3, just behind my wife and me, in row E, seats 3 and 4.

  • Better Than Heaven

    So many set asides, you say, intemperate

  • Club X

    Between the gaping double-doors of Club-X and two leather thugs,

  • Thinly Veiled

    In Alabama I learnt the difference between the state flag and the battle flag

  • Two Poems

    You search for the best doctors, try to curb her pain—

  • Christmas Nineteen-Sixty-Something and Notes from My Doppelganger

    By that time we were hanging the tree from a hook

  • Florida

    The prettiest state,

  • Circumference & Earthrise

    Vanilla farmers in Madagascar sit in the dark with rifles;

  • On Beauty and To the Phaistos Disc

    I have a tree outside my house. I don’t know what kind—in spring, it blooms, gorgeous.

  • Revolver

    His face was a festival.  Inside it,

  • Circus

    How the squirrel, skittish, leaps, lobbing its orange