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  • Bookish | Brush Your Fingers Through Your Hair, Why Don’t You?

    The bookishness that

  • The Stranger

    A quick call

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,

  • Carpe Diem

    You won't live

  • Testimony of an Armless Man

    I lost my arms in a farming accident, but later found I’d grown phantom limbs. There were many things I

  • My Groundhog

    I had a groundhog in my back yard.

  • 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

  • Winter | Untitled

    Let this winter pass into another winter.

  • A Heresy Sublime

    An artist whom I’ve met is Dürer,

  • knell & i object i object i object

    the chit-a’click-chit of a squirrel

  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, darkening in maple shade.