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  • Family

    None of my friends called their grandmother Nana.

  • A Wedding in the Hotel

    Sorry, the dining room’s closed:

  • The First Communion and Forty-Two

    I shall sit here, on this bench,

  • Willie Mays Lives at Adjacent Moments in Time

    Because he would be seen

  • Dear— and On Misreading a Line by Mario de Andrade

    Scorch splinter shard and itch  Dear glitch

  • Trouble

    And so it took shape, & from what.

  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not

  • Missed Romance & The Image

    An old black and white photograph

  • Trompe L’oeil –Not a Painting

    From 30,000 feet

  • Any Kind

    Look up. The sky is never constant, sometimes clouded,

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Three Poems

    His Majesty’s flock of Spanish sheep at Kew is most grievously afflicted...