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  • Frog Dream in July for Lucio’s Brother

    I am a frog; I can

  • Shakedown, Sleeping Mother and The Touch

    On Main Street, two cops stop me in front of the tire store. One is big and burly and the other is lean

  • Skin and Arioso

    I am sending off my blood for the story of who I am.

  • To the Poets Dropped from the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

    Au revoir, Walter de la Mare!

  • Bleeding Hearts

    They do not fit their given name. They glow

  • Road Trip

    Over the singed and brittle roadside stalks,

  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.

  • A Meeting

    Of all the disappointments

  • Horoscope and American Upanishad

    Two hearts can charge the moment they meet,

  • A Controlled Substance

    My brother is late again, somehow the glass

  • ALCHEMICAL MEDITATION

    It abides in secret on my pencil tip—

  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The