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  • Happiness on Earth

    Especially if you were waking

  • Song

    It wasn’t a goat’s head swaying in the tree. It was a ferret

  • Once I loved an opera singer from Spain

    for 15 days, maybe 20.

  • After the War for Independence and Despite Nostalgia

    Those boys in the basement, middle-schoolers, unruly

  • Club X

    Between the gaping double-doors of Club-X and two leather thugs,

  • Booklet, Hand-Pressed Paper, Containing Locks of School-Children’s Hair, c. 1861

    Wound on a bobbin like thread.  Woven into a wreath

  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.

  • EASTHAM TURNIPS, ROUTE 6, NOVEMBER

    Honor System, the sign tacked to a scrub oak said,

  • Ohio

    I will remember you in a Golden Corral after church on a Sunday.

  • My Love

    Place your hand, my love, against my heart

  • Life Pig

    The hams the hocks the oddly delicate

  • Arcana

    The solvent alters. The durable