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Poems

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  • Bodies on the Margins

    The artist understands blood; or rather

  • Bird of Paradise

    The songs of the mariachi in the park

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Braid Him Into the Earth

    Knee-high coffin of wicker, earth-boat floating through the woods.

  • Duet

    Their quest--what does the human body mean?--

  • The Beautiful Hand

    Not a word.

  • A BAT IN THE HOUSE

    swoops high, webbed little arms for

  • Vanity

    it’s easy to fritter your life away

  • The Injured Future

    Far left cluster the listeners, their heads lifted toward the speaker.

  • Missed Romance & The Image

    An old black and white photograph

  • Two Poems

    The clarity of familiar faces

  • True West

    We return by foot from pre-plantation oaks,