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  • Paean for the Players

    The pale actor’s mouth

  • SOMETHING LIKE A WING

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he hid in his

  • To a Man in Rags Holding Out a Cup | A 100-year-old Man Asks Me to Write about Something

    I don’t have much

  • LONG AFTER HE IS GONE | LAST OFFER

    All the summer’s night

  • Two Poems

    Where does it live?

  • The Walk-Through Heart & The Odyssey of Yes

    my mother lived in a handmade cage

  • Testimony of an Armless Man

    I lost my arms in a farming accident, but later found I’d grown phantom limbs. There were many things I

  • THE LEAVES HAVE NO PITY

    gathering under the porch like abandoned promises,

  • from “From Nothing”

    One note, another, in the parlor’s angled light,

  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle

  • Vernissage

    Survivors of a volcanic explosion, cross-

  • Passing Royalty and Dostadning: Beginner’s Translation

    I’m sorry I didn’t comprehend sooner how threatening