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  • Twelve Wings & Mother of the Holy Hope

    It was difficult to get a nurse.

  • AS IN A SACK | STILL HEARD | BREATH THEY COULDN’T

    AS IN A SACK held shut by cord,

  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,

  • Arête | Eurydice

    The Hemingway who wrote three stories in a crummy hotel

  • The Killing

    While Abraham binds his son’s hands,

  • First Words

    In the marriage booth at sleep-away camp,

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Poem with Ginger in it

    This rough hooked lump, this botched

  • Yes

    Yes, all things of water and our days rounded with light, yes,

  • A Photo Of My Father That Doesn’t Actually Exist and Take The Body From The Ground

    Her clothing says Old Europe

  • Toussaint

    The soul, you said, is this sour wind, or this empty glass, the tiny steps of insects, these white iron

  • Christmas Nineteen-Sixty-Something and Notes from My Doppelganger

    By that time we were hanging the tree from a hook