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  • In a Pile of Pictures

    The man—young enough to be my son—

  • South Hole

    So worship fire.

  • The Labors of Psyche

    Because I could not not-know any longer I held the lamp over him

  • Golgotha & Receiving the Host

    Then they came and cleansed you my love

  • Ancestral Home

    Frangipani, its petals warm milk around

  • from Landscapes on a Train

    There once was a church. There once was a steeple. These things fall into

  • Story of My Species

    first she was in the ocean

  • Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines

    Sea otters sun themselves on harbor rocks,

  • A Heresy Sublime

    An artist whom I’ve met is Dürer,

  • FOR MATS AND LAILA

    The Date Line lies motionless between Samoa and Tonga, but the Midnight Line glides across the ocean and islands and rooftops of huts.

  • When My Son Is Dead 14 Years

    These are the years I bargain with God.

  • Two Poems

    War catches a man with a shopping bag