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Poems

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  • Three Poems

    I had not thought of her until many years later driving on White Lightning Road with my son.

  • Proof of Poetry

    I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter

  • An Occupation

    The world will end in pink.  Those clouds just above the horizon

  • N18P6

    the shape doesn’t

  • Toshno

    Marina is trying to describe Raskolnikov’s interior state

  • SIXTH GRADE REDUX

    Good morning, Ladles and Jellyfish!

  • A Thin Membrane and For the New Parent

    I knew she had a glass eye though she never spoke of it

  • Ancestors

    Farther back than my grandmother

  • Memorial Bench

    Suzanne and Half Zantop loved sitting here—

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • Beipei, Low Water, Winter 1985

    Li Ping is peeling

  • Suburban Landscape, Summer

    Me, young and girlish, flesh not yet mourning.