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  • Danger: A Triptych

    I thought at first it was a rock, a pebble my own tire had somehow kicked up in a weird curve.  I kept driving to my

  • De Profundis | Sea Song for Couples in Love

    Sometimes you are going past on a motorbike and you look up in time to see a woman who loved you hand in hand

  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.

  • From Pendant que Perceval tombait, by Tania Langlais, translated from French by Jessica Cuello

    you don’t know how to write with lightness

  • Braid Him Into the Earth

    Knee-high coffin of wicker, earth-boat floating through the woods.

  • First Words

    In the marriage booth at sleep-away camp,

  • Ancestral Home

    Frangipani, its petals warm milk around

  • Little Torch

    First there was delight, delight in the windchimes,

  • The Tiger | Friendship  

    In a tourist magazine about the amusements of Rome,

  • On Being Mused Upon

    Reading his poems, you recognize yourself

  • Music Class | Hymnals and Revivals

    Kids learned to play

  • Trash

    Good you are trashing, my husband says, when I send him a photo