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  • St. Bonaventure and Spring Birthday Romance

    Merton’s last stop in the world

  • Wool Cap

    Flip is coming for dinner, I hear his car driving past the house. 

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

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

  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.

  • FISHERMAN, 50 B.C.

    What else would I do on the river

  • For the Child Molester

    Let him sleep right through it—

  • the kitchen song

    so strong a wind

  • Bending Truth to Advantage

    From Robert Lowell’s poem “Those Before Us,” these final lines: “Pardon them for existing.

  • Mourning and Melancholia

    If I had two dogs,

  • Grave

    Over the grave the bird will

  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth

  • In Search of Grace

    With slush to ground the Erie trees