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  • Perspective and Day Sex Ode

    I have often confused the expression center of gravity, first

  • First Wedding

    It was one of those days when not even the bland sun

  • DIEU! QU’IL LA FAIT & ON THE RIVERLINE

    Would it be cheating

  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,

  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.

  • Same Screen

    Every summer the students at the Bread Loaf School of English

  • The Irretrievable

    Second shelf on the right. You’ll

  • Sharp Noises at Night

    When I travel to the Midwest, trains

  • The Science of Departures

    We study the departure screen and

  • Three Stages of Friendship and Grief

    I was wondering if your eyelashes had fallen out

  • Poem in the Old Style

    At the beginning of the play Hecuba was mourning her great losses. She made lists, blamed the Gods: they could

  • Carbide

    As he approached the river a little Fiat drew off the main road and parked among