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  • Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules

    A power in proximity to terror, the lower middle-class sublime of a car’s back seat,

  • On Being Mused Upon

    Reading his poems, you recognize yourself

  • Maria Dolores, Mother of Sorrows Quilts

    She sewed them from the old

  • What Santa Asked When Lord Russell Argued that “Santa Claus” was a Definite Description and not a Referring Expression

    I tell my students to heed four things and they will be fine.

  • The Silver Bullet

    When I wasn’t washing my hands, I remembered

  • Calendar

    Some people, after the day

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain

  • Paper

    Damned if I’ll be the woman who collects mass produced throw pillows counts her

  • Halloween

    No gazette ran the story,

  • It’s Not Just Trains

    The ticket office was closing

  • THE LEAVES HAVE NO PITY

    gathering under the porch like abandoned promises,