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  • Rome/Glasgow: Early March

    Our favorite time to visit—cool air for all-day walking, in

  • Wraith

    I never walk past that gate I don’t recall a rifle butt, two sharp yelps,

  • THE LIGHTS ON THE BOATS

    I didn’t start this to break anyone’s heart.

  • The Peripheral Position of the Sun

    A young woman roars, laughs, splashes the face of a young man, nears the shore where the blinking lights of fireflies

  • The Oklahoma Purchase

    William Howard Taft wouldn’t drink before dark.

  • Aunt Rolla

    She had the softest face

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Once We Were

    once we were immigrants

  • Near the Sea

    All manner of birds love this windbreak hedge

  • from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst

    An exceptionally unhappy heart.

  • The Happiness on the Other Side of Happiness

    Kids swing and old men sit. That's the way

  • Yellowphant and Don’t Forget

    The circus so yellow and red stands on two feet,