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  • Survival Rate | 1st Love

    When at customs I don’t declare
  • Houses

    Under the cold light of the chintzy white crown chandelier, I’d lean one upright card again
  • Until Recently I Had Believed In Something Like Lack | Until Only Last Week I Hadn’t Thought

    Until recently I had believed in something like lack
  • Burning Leaves

    Leaf-fires smell like
  • Micah

    For a moment I was on trial
  • Else

    At the first instance, to amuse others,
  • Wilderness

    The mind is a wilderness like Bartram’s, razed, cemented over, marked by rows
  • Zacharia, Malachi

    When the shepherd is stricken
  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,
  • Undelivered letter from the Rev. Charles Smale to The Times, 1874 | Xiuhmolpilli, or The Binding of the Years, November 1507*

    We have spent too long debating Darwin in these pages
  • THE DAY

    History sings “misery, misery.”
  • In the Next Life and The Office of Apology

    When I become the most trusted translator of your poems