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  • Three Ballerinas & Blue Plaques

    After the war, my father bought three little porcelain figurines in Germany, three

  • Two Departures from Rilke

    Terrified past panic, strict lines collapsed,

  • The Fruit Bat of Taxidermy

    Whoever the taxidermist was,

  • I’m Nothing

    close to a Zen scholar,

  • The Epileptic

    Conversations with him are like waiting for thunder.

  • A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye

    It’s not criminal: it isn’t sodomy

  • Three Poems

    It was a beauty, made by the Hmong in Laos

  • Lyre

    Because it hangs from the center of the sky,

  • Elegy for a Landscaper

    The holes we find scraped out at the edge

  • Which Makes Me, I Guess, the Muddy Colorado

    What we learn from most pornography is

  • BY THE MEADOWS OF HAY BALES

    By the meadows of hay bales

  • To Say

    There are dead children all over and under this earth