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  • The gift of putting something down…

    The gift of putting something down, he had yet to discover it--letting it slide from his grip.

  • Slowly But Not Too Much and When Your Lover Leaves You

    as if making your way through an alphabet

  • Oak | Installation

    I sat at it, a good table—one of a number

  • Arrow Boy

    They see her as a genie in a pager.

  • Vortex Street

    I tied my hands behind me so I won’t hurt you.

  • Mangos | Talking Animals | Bringing Things Back From the Woods

    We did not have mango trees back home on the prairies.  The climate and soil conditions were not conducive to that

  • Football & the English Language

    My first year as high school coach, five points

  • A Brief Portfolio: Five Poems

    I found this suitcase slumped in a dark attic corner

  • What is Unknown

    When I tell her I’ve fallen for What Is Unknown, my mother’s face brightens.  “She’ll be a good girlfriend for you,”

  • Once We Were

    once we were immigrants

  • Tartine. Quasi-unfamiliar. To handle a relationship

    In her teenage years,

  • WHY WE NEED UNIONS

    If the lion wants more