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  • Notnames at the Detroit Institute of the Arts and Hell Fuckin’ Yeah:  Smackdown vs. Raw

    At the Detroit Institute of the Arts the Caravaggio’s no

  • Letter From The Capital

    She writes: now we have wars between historical eras. We fight in time as well as space. 1914 vs. 1939 is a devastating

  • Elegy

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay

  • In Which the Sea Rakes at My Window and Seemingly Unlike Me

    and I wake rattled, as if to resist a long fall

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Autumn again, and I side with Szymborska

  • Song

    It wasn’t a goat’s head swaying in the tree. It was a ferret

  • Heard in Caravaggio

    The real is offered, unashamed:

  • Standing by a Coppice Gate, Reading “The Darkling Thrush”

    The city gate loomed at century’s end,

  • Survival Rate | 1st Love

    When at customs I don’t declare

  • Boothill Graveyard and Boyden Cemetery

    mrs suicide : mrs arsenic : mrs dance hall girls quarreling over a man :  mrs descriptive murder in the streets of tombstone

  • Willem Van de Velde the Younger, Ships in a Gale (1660) and Matsumura Goshun, Crab (late 18th century)

    The storm dissolves the difference between wave,

  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e