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  • The Triumphs of 1974 & A Self-Guided Tour of Machu Picchu, OR Please, Sir/Madam, Step Away from the Edge of the Abyss

    Moneyless, we moved to Cali,

  • In a Pile of Pictures

    The man—young enough to be my son—

  • Two poems by Adélia Prado (from Miserere) translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

    On what might be called a street,

  • Three Fascinations

    to wake to an alarm

  • Henry’s Song

    Sometimes sitting in a friend's backyard on a fall evening

  • Others & Kents

    They stopped the car on the crest of Coleman Valley Road to show his sister and her husband the Pacific view.

  • Pensé Que Estabas Muerto

    but your deaths existed the nights you didn’t come home.

  • ALCHEMICAL MEDITATION

    It abides in secret on my pencil tip—

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I was in sixth grade when I twirled Stephanie Comb’s

  • Bear Sometimes Thinks He’s Dead & Shelf Life

    But lately he’s observed the Hermit Thrush

  • The Afterlife of Fish and Opossum

    Whenever we caught fish when we were boys,

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

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