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  • The Summer House

    I let the envelope fall to the floor unopened,

  • Eclipse

    November’s moon is in eclipse—

  • Cling of the World

    What could it mean

  • I’ll Hang Around as Long as You Will Let Me

    John Prine is dead on TV in the season before trees bear peaches

  • Poem for Shang Qin

    I’ve been digging my way toward you since the day I was born. I watch the

  • Chronoscope 241:  Briefly

    Briefly: the glare sun below the clouds

  • Late in October

    Late in October, I watch

  • The Host of Turns

    We were gathered in this kind of circus-tent,

  • Uplight

    The uplight is where I want to be, above and looking, and looking over.

  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English

  • LOVE HAS BIG TEETH | Route 140, Sixty Miles North of Winnemucca

    You, in New Hampshire,

  • LIFE ON ENCELADUS

    It’s snowing all the time at the south pole of Enceladus