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  • Five Orgasms after reading Lydia Davis

    You are sleeping beside me, but I can’t sleep, not in this roadside hotel smelling of new carpet and cigarettes. It’s late.

  • Head of a Woman with the Horns of a Ram

    I used to curse the sidewalk ice

  • CATAFALQUE

    Angel of the gap thrills to floodwaters

  • L’Heure Bleue

    Who was the first to say darkness “falls”?

  • Pip

    Withered pip of a boy, now grey and halt

  • For the Child Molester

    Let him sleep right through it—

  • DINNER AT LYNN AND LINDA’S WITH KEN AND JACK

    Dinner tonight with two married gay couples

  • Sestina for an Idiom

    I was fifteen and all fights with my father ended

  • Innocence

    The birds she could identify—nuthatch, oriole—

  • Callas Poems

    She whom you seek is not here!

  • Charlotte

    That was a malaise. We call that malaise.

  • JOURNAL, OR STORY WITHOUT WORDS

    And I follow the hand copying what it had written years ago