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  • Don’t Bum Out the Musicians

    At St. Paul’s church, the musicians have heard it all.

  • I’m Nothing

    close to a Zen scholar,

  • The Oklahoma Purchase

    William Howard Taft wouldn’t drink before dark.

  • Three Poems

    Heat, filthy, gut-sick heat in my city’s cobblestone streets.

  • Two Poems

    The clarity of familiar faces

  • Yellowphant and Don’t Forget

    The circus so yellow and red stands on two feet,

  • Polaris Mall

    February,  9:37 p.m.  Two Canada geese,

  • Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”

    How to say hair

  • Last Christmas

    Your best friend had brain cancer

  • Bedtime Story

    It wasn’t only my father who believed in the romanticism of war

  • Four Poems

    A sudden pain flares in in my head like a match flaring into darkness: my mother is dying.

  • SPITE FENCE | THE HUMAN CANARY

    My neighbor forced his abutter