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  • Idea for a Screenplay *

    A man sits on his porch and reads aloud to the yard, to some plants and to some birds, his feelings of paranoia, anger

  • I’m a Witch!

    It is standard for women

  • The Plum

    A teacher I loved

  • Paean for the Players

    The pale actor’s mouth

  • Borges at Dolphin Books: New Orleans, 1982

    He props his cane between Maps & True Crime,

  • From the Republic of Sleep and Mercy | The Island to Remind You of Your Childhood

    All night I dreamt death

  • Alone at the New Year

    An instant of awe, then, afterwards,

  • Market Day

    Python belt on my jeans.

  • Joy

    Even when the gods have driven you

  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed

  • Bridge Thrill

    After two days of TV airlifts and wheels-to-the-sky

  • A Toy Airplane

    The tumor