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  • Clues from the Animal Kingdom

    It seems you’re here again, pitching the weight of the bruise you call a body

  • Shooting Pool in the Mental Hospital

    Because memory is not the hovering bank shot that stops at the lip

  • Beyond the Unnamed Thickets of Silence translated from Spanish by Jeremy Paden

    Beyond the unnamed thickets of silence,

  • The Lord Is a Man of War | Far Desert Region | The Day-Shift Sleeps, | [Does the war want

    The Lord is a man of war

  • An Intimate Moment of Protestant Despair Witnessed on the Four O’ Clock Train

    He put down his Wall Street Journal,

  • SENTIMENTAL CONVERSATION

    In an ancient park, isolated and icy,

  • Beautiful Worry

    this wan light, spaghetti-thin, uneases

  • Elegy for a Landscaper

    The holes we find scraped out at the edge

  • From the grab bag of desire

    I keep meaning to walk up to you,

  • Cicada’s Courtship, Origin Story and Clean Houses

    The dissipation of freshly harvested leeks, wilted,

  • Two poems by Adélia Prado (from Miserere) translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

    On what might be called a street,

  • SHINE, NOT BURN

    Just at that point