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  • The Blue Light

    Where were you as the light descended & do you

  • Little Night Owl

    For hours I’d lug her on my shoulder,

  • BIRD

    I lived between the hemisphere of songbirds and the hemisphere

  • From Bajo la lluvia ajena (In Foreign Rain) by Juan Gelman, translated by Lisa Rose Bradford

    On the tiers of experience.

  • Lobsters | Turkey Vultures

    In the depths of the sea they will eat the sea and outgrow the world’s largest pot.

  • The Dangers of Contemplation

    Follow the seagull aloft

  • Bailed Out

    And once we climbed over the wire fence

  • The Studio

    The palette down left in the foreground,

  • Zacharia, Malachi

    When the shepherd is stricken

  • Where Birds Sleep 

    It goes down and the birds go to sleep.

  • Boothill Graveyard and Boyden Cemetery

    mrs suicide : mrs arsenic : mrs dance hall girls quarreling over a man :  mrs descriptive murder in the streets of tombstone

  • It’s 3 A.M., Winter, and Nine Miles from Truckee

    and nobody better than I to tell you about