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  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • DELIBERATE AS THINKING IS THE RAIN

    Stepping off the door lintel, down onto the grass as the day closed around us, grass, rising up inside its own squared

  • What is Pleasure

    The supreme pleasure of love

  • Pier

    If the pier is two hundred and fifty words long, it is important

  • Soup Teachers

    we called them, the women who stood behind

  • What Light Tastes Like

    Depends on the hour of departure and if flowers

  • The Last Widow | The Last Mirror

    The last widow misses men. The last widow misses her husband

  • Edna St. Vincent, M.F.A.

    Chic and petite, blind to her destiny

  • The Raccoon

    Like an old Italian man,

  • SOMETHING LIKE A WING

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he hid in his

  • Elegy

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay

  • For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves

    Welcome all who have traveled the long road