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  • Is a Rose

    O’Keefe’s opens in the troposphere, blooms like smoke.

  • Note to Thomas Stearns Eliot

    I just dared to eat

  • Micah

    For a moment I was on trial

  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five

  • Lost Tails, City of Money and Counting the Money

    One day our tails fell off and lay at our feet like giant dead caterpillars.

  • Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”

    How to say hair

  • The Orders of the Ordinary

    Death seemed no more

  • Missing

    If I told you simply that the bed in the Baptist Hospital

  • Toys

    Your toys, my child, hold them dear,

  • Thomas Hardy in the Dorset County Museum

    Turned sideways in a desk chair,

  • In Search of Grace

    With slush to ground the Erie trees

  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,