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  • TO HÉCTOR VIEL TEMPERLEY

    Cockroaches ignored the winter dawn

  • More Reason

    Though you may be a scribe in ancient Egypt

  • THE COMPLETE LIST OF EVERYTHING

    Plow blade excavated from a tomb

  • On a Version of “Lady with Lapdog” | Synch

    How clever, to leave out all the articles, thereby suggesting their story, their plight, were less a story than a portrait

  • What Was Left Out

    was the skirt my sister bought with the prize money

  • Three Poems

    Woman in Drugstore, Receptionist, Counter Lady with Change for a Quarter, Clubwoman, Saleslady, Train Passenger

  • What Santa Asked When Lord Russell Argued that “Santa Claus” was a Definite Description and not a Referring Expression

    I tell my students to heed four things and they will be fine.

  • The Neighbor’s War and Walking Backwards

    Through my kitchen window I can watch

  • Pick Me Up

    the words love you, friend

  • Another Morning, Same Mountain

    Enshrouded mountain,

  • 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.

  • Hotline

    The calls came in around the clock. A nunnery in Nova Scotia with a broken clavichord.