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  • Night Pieces

    The hickories live close by—

  • Better Than Heaven

    So many set asides, you say, intemperate

  • The Poet in a Streetcar & The Sunflower of Rio de Onor

    Suddenly with another year fallen away

  • On a Version of “Lady with Lapdog” | Synch

    How clever, to leave out all the articles, thereby suggesting their story, their plight, were less a story than a portrait

  • Molt & Clean Water Act

    Neither here nor there, you don’t fit. 

  • A Brief Portfolio: Heaney in an Irish Pub & Other Poems

    Heaney in an Irish Pub, Washington, DC, Hunger, In the Bishop's Garden:  Hide and Seek and Lost in China

  • Mari Küla and Mari Meli

    Manuela Colipe Benavente breathes in the sun so that she can sleep.

  • After the War for Independence and Despite Nostalgia

    Those boys in the basement, middle-schoolers, unruly

  • Somebody’s Got My Hair | Cuffed

    Somebody’s got my hair, I said to my lover, who stood in front of the mirror in a long white t-shirt brushing out her

  • Stanley Cavell Pauses on the Aventine | A Package Tour

    At the side of the slope where all those waves

  • How to Get Divorced

    STEP 1: For 20 years, swallow everything. Eat until you are the heaviest pillow on the

  • In the Vestibule

    The in-between is queasy