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  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • She Dog | Mermaid

    A ticky rain of blood from

  • Night Pieces

    The hickories live close by—

  • Book of Dolls

    The psychoanalyst has left the building

  • The Absurd Self Looking Both Ways at Once | Inventing Nightlife

    Plato said the world is divided into a world

  • The Epileptic

    Conversations with him are like waiting for thunder.

  • Your Brother’s Face

    You believe your brother will come down

  • Riding the Metro-North New Haven Line and Black Mountain Music

    The question is what kind of sausage are they—

  • Naked City

    Apprehended in Herald Square carrying the head of his sister-in-law

  • The Age of the Onion

    The onion is a Book of Revelations, diced to proverb-size.

  • Cooking in Ashes

    The smile is missing; no joy around the eyes.

  • The Drowned and the Saved

    If all of us were to try to kill ourselves at least once, then all of us would know nothing more than that: which is why