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  • Tom’s Sublet and Without Longing, What?

    Once, a long time ago in Rome, I was bathed

  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,

  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a

  • Eight Poems

    An Amazon can be used for so much. The ashtray

  • Photographer’s Song & Nothing Song

    Standing in the shade,

  • Separation

    Slumbering suburbs, calm depths of summer.

  • Ödön von Horváth | Brief Incident in Short a, Long a, and Schwa | My Friend’s Creation | Contingency (Vs. Necessity)

    Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant.  Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and

  • My Heart in Evening

    In the evening one hears the sharp shrieks of bats.

  • When My Son Is Dead 14 Years

    These are the years I bargain with God.

  • Three Orgasm Poems

    She thinks success would be her best revenge. It’s not enough for her now, merely to be alive. Or to feel bliss in brief

  • Perspective and Chosen by the Lion

    In the bedroom, the man disentangles his limbs from those of another.

  • A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches

    Very dark now I put a seed in my mouth but its texture and taste