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  • Insomnia, A Love Story

    Everybody sleeps.  Our poem starts with that premise.

  • A Date With an Undertaker

    He liked to bathe, dress,

  • Endecasyllabics: About the Women (Alma, Ruthie)

    The lion-maned poet holds court on our blue

  • from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst

    An exceptionally unhappy heart.

  • Olympia

    The ancient Greeks knew how to pick out a sacred spot,

  • At the End of the Alphabet

    Books bloated and fanned

  • Three Poems

    It’s good to see him young again,

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • Always a Woman, a War, or a Lost Cause

    That hunched those men over Zorro’s

  • Received Wisdom

    A horse fence

  • Remnant Tongue

    I woke wounded

  • Two poems by Krystyna Lenkowska translated from Polish by Cecilia Woloch

    When I was young