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  • Reading Julio Cortázar after turning 70

    Years ago, there was your story about a man named John Howell.

  • National Poetry Month

    I stand before you today to speak about

  • Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot

    Past midnight, a man in his late 60s, tall, with long

  • How I Felt the First Time I Tried It

    Like a clam’s tongue muscling

  • SOME FAITH

    God we need rain. And white flowers.

  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,

  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write

  • Wordwell Triptych

    chronic lapse

  • Charcuterie

    She penciled fanciful animals

  • Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

    No beach here—just the sea

  • Bear Sometimes Thinks He’s Dead & Shelf Life

    But lately he’s observed the Hermit Thrush

  • Life Pig

    The hams the hocks the oddly delicate