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  • 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.

  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,

  • The Good World

    but when I painted the deer

  • From Inches Away

    From inches away his finger can’t miss

  • Norumbega Park

    They used to say the name was Viking

  • The Suicide’s Wife

    inhabits an invisible island

  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,

  • The gift of putting something down…

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

  • Resumé

    Families shame you;

  • Perfect Air

    Put book down

  • Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland

    Your poems make me want to write my poems

  • Embraced

    I have visited an ancient redwood and heard it creak