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    Reader, today

  • Where Birds Sleep 

    It goes down and the birds go to sleep.

  • An Island

    Toward the end of the island

  • Big Finish

    Now that the last shaft of sunset has collapsed

  • Lobsters | Turkey Vultures

    In the depths of the sea they will eat the sea and outgrow the world’s largest pot.

  • Duets

    Telemann at 7:30 on an evening

  • Sicily, 1992

    Etna’s lava shone against the gloom,

  • THE INVENTION OF FIRE

    In “Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland,” dated to 1585, three women lie on a large pyre watched by a circle of men.

  • A Provisional Topography | One of the Many Stories of Sounds | Sooner or Later

    On the Weichsel River, before the war. You see

  • LOOKING AT DAD

    To see my father not seeing me with

  • from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst

    An exceptionally unhappy heart.

  • Sequoia

    Immune to lightning and Arctic cold,