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  • On Brueghel’s Massacre of the Innocents

    He’s switched the scene from Bethlehem

  • Pomade

    It has been so long since anyone has touched it

  • Hanging the Dirty Laundry

    Father's ties were mother’s noose

  • LIMESTONE GHAZAL

    My windowsill’s lined with fossils, whorled limestone

  • PHYSICS, ETC.

    Everything and everybody are always doing something.

  • Rats

    Sudden underfoot, this one cries back

  • Two Poems

    the way a kitchen’s dirty washcloth

  • Canine Elegy

    All over town, dogs are lying down

  • Endecasyllabics: About the Women (Alma, Ruthie)

    The lion-maned poet holds court on our blue

  • Earth, Temple, Gods

    A woman's feet, in lace-up sandals made of stone.

  • ON EMPATHY

    Wary of the verb  “empathize”—together with its noun “empathy” and adjective

  • AFTER A FUNERAL

    After the service and reception hour