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  • Taking It Back

    Two weeks past Epiphany,

  • My Love

    Place your hand, my love, against my heart

  • Who Pays

    Lord I have eaten and I don’t

  • REVENANT

    Salt and sour bait

  • Creek

    Now it is easy to find where the creek dwindles, where it thickens at last, where its

  • Synecdoche, New York

    When you meet

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,

  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,

  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”

  • Eggs

    Eggs in the cakes invoked by Marie Antoinette.

  • She Painted Artichokes

    You had nothing to say so you painted some splendid artichokes