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  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • Slow Thinker

    Audiences love the slow

  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—

  • Wuhan

    Utopia, or dystopia,

  • Why I Haven’t “Outgrown Surrealism,” No Matter What That Moron Reviewer Wrote

    I still love the sound of breaking,

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

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

  • Ode to the Google Maps Man

    Gold-suited spaceman, terranaut,

  • The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor understands

  • Before They Came For Us | Civilian Exiting the Facilities | Table for Six

    They met in the woods below our homes, brought their sawed-off shotguns and

  • Football & the English Language

    My first year as high school coach, five points

  • Streak, Exit Survey and Against All Endings

    A jackknifed semi full

  • Whatever Alights

    A zillion yeses to the titmice at my feeder,