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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

  • Dog in the Manger

    As if you’d keep your bones from other dogs
  • Mother, at Last

    You were Scarlett O’Hara
  • What is Love in Tennis, and What is Love | Nude from Here to Eternity

    If there’s personality in how you jump, then I wonder about
  • She Said She Saw Vowels

    underneath her birdfeeder
  • from Sleeping with Bashō

    Growing out of clouds like a cedar tree—
  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle
  • Amalgam

    Mostly, what I didn’t know didn’t hurt me
  • ON RETREAT | POLAND SPRING MANDARIN ORANGE

    The way you reconstructed the dream was telling –
  • A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems

    told us Hollywood was a verb on the painted stretcher &    fretting,
  • Big Finish

    Now that the last shaft of sunset has collapsed
  • Unified Theory

    The night is blue and staggered with stars.