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  • Untitled

    it's harder to be patient when you're helpless

  • In Waterplace Park on Our 15th Anniversary

    I’m waiting for you on the bank of the river,

  • Booklet, Hand-Pressed Paper, Containing Locks of School-Children’s Hair, c. 1861

    Wound on a bobbin like thread.  Woven into a wreath

  • Practically Home

    Practically home holds no promise of arrival.

  • After the Invention of Polystyrene a Ligurian Goat Crosses the Equator

    Abut in a tailspin, mad spark

  • Two Poems

    the way a kitchen’s dirty washcloth

  • Things I’ve Discovered in Hong Kong

    Semantics: clue that Trappist Dairy Milk Drink is not milk—had I read the label—

  • The Bird that Begins it

    In the world-famous night which is already flinging away bits of dark but not

  • Across the Wide Missouri

    It’s toward the end of the season.

  • Same Screen

    Every summer the students at the Bread Loaf School of English

  • Logs

    Giants lie entangled on wet sand,

  • TAROT: THE EMPRESS

    Earth pours wet, quick scimitars