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  • So This is the Future & Hope

    After I found out––

  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,

  • The Age of the Onion

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

  • Embraced

    I have visited an ancient redwood and heard it creak

  • The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title

    Over distilleries’ rooftops, angels tipple

  • Pacemaker

    The heart in vital meter recites.

  • DOG CITY

    We have seen you following the scent—

  • The Barn

    No one just Mary

  • Quotidian and Carry

    Steak dinners are the worst /you prefer the fatty cut / those white-ribboned slabs from Save-A-Lot

  • Thetis

    We see her through her element, not

  • Approximations

    Waking up in a borrowed room, in a body

  • Bending Truth to Advantage

    From Robert Lowell’s poem “Those Before Us,” these final lines: “Pardon them for existing.