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  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,

  • What is Unknown

    When I tell her I’ve fallen for What Is Unknown, my mother’s face brightens.  “She’ll be a good girlfriend for you,”

  • Cataclysmic Paternity

    There’s the you at birth and the you that’s taught and the you you concocted.

  • KRVAVÝ KOLENO

    Why does the line end sooner than the page?

  • Milkweed Lullaby and Radio Lullaby

    The days were endless,

  • Agnus Dei, Winslow Wants a Gun, Omega Street

    The shearer’s come horse-back from Solo –

  • Toussaint

    The soul, you said, is this sour wind, or this empty glass, the tiny steps of insects, these white iron

  • Proof of Poetry

    I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter

  • Geese

    More dream now than memory, though memory is all it is: after an early dinner, I’m dropping them off at their

  • January in West Texas

    Once, I preferred nights. How they arrived one tied to the next like silk scarves, knots of daylight between them. I

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

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

  • Imperial Crimson

    There is no way I can write ‘producing meanings’ as my job in the CV,