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  • Vita Nova

    Born on the outskirts of the Romanian kingdom

  • “Dispatches from Terra Incognita”

    Saturday, cold as a witch’s you know what. I’m at the Lab to give a urine sample.

  • A VARIATION | MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED | HART CRANE

    Why ask to know, twin and neighbor,

  • Somebody’s Got My Hair | Cuffed

    Somebody’s got my hair, I said to my lover, who stood in front of the mirror in a long white t-shirt brushing out her

  • ON HANDSHAKES

    There are firm ones.  Soft, almost boneless ones.  Hardy/hearty ones.  Two-handed ones, cocooning.  Congratulatory

  • Blown Away

    There’s something stuck in my throat, it might be the red-eyed

  • Preludium

    In The Odyssey,

  • from Sleeping with Bashō

    Growing out of clouds like a cedar tree—

  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze

  • What is Unknown

    When I tell her I’ve fallen for What Is Unknown, my mother’s face brightens.  “She’ll be a good girlfriend for you,”

  • The Next Life and Windpowered

    Sea fog drifting through the pines—

  • Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot

    Past midnight, a man in his late 60s, tall, with long