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  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved

  • Thetis

    We see her through her element, not

  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English

  • Painting

    all things look as if

  • Apologetics

    A host of angels or a compass of cherubim

  • Mindfulness Training in La Jolla

    That summer of Pokémon-go,

  • The Suicide’s Wife

    inhabits an invisible island

  • Study: Old Watercolor and Joe

    I bought an old watercolor in a primitives shop and brought it home to my in-laws’ on summer vacation.

  • Mari Küla and Mari Meli

    Manuela Colipe Benavente breathes in the sun so that she can sleep.

  • The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor understands

  • Nesting & a triptych

    At my parents’ house nothing is in boxes, nothing is packed.

  • Family Way

    In my family, when any one of the women of my grandmother’s generation dreamt of fish she would get on the phone to