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  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • Club X

    Between the gaping double-doors of Club-X and two leather thugs,

  • Cache

    Here lies a hectic site, la Cité

  • I’ve Lived Long with the Dead | The Word Stays Here

    I’ve lived long with the dead. I know their

  • Dear American Amnesia

    I know you are only trying to make

  • A Brief Portfolio

    He’s nowhere now.

  • Three Poems translated from Chinese by Steven Bradbury

    The ancient Greeks believed that if you took everything

  • Don’t Know Much About the French I Took

    I silently disapproved when they said, “Let’s go French

  • Testimony of an Armless Man

    I lost my arms in a farming accident, but later found I’d grown phantom limbs. There were many things I

  • Aqua and Violet

    Childlike ones don’t tattle on the choice of stepfathers.

  • And After the Ark

    what was left behind was astounding:

  • Mnemonic

    Leaves in the eaves