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  • On Lust

    I've outlived lust, or think I have.

  • Unfinished Business

    Cleaning up, in the kitchen, she goes to wipe away a small black seed from the counter.

  • Three Poems

    Typos   Word instead of wood but, sodden, it smoked when it burned. I wrote god for good who was, once–– in my childhood years, crowned with the nimbus of that capital G–– but now tends to be a placeholder for nightmare, tears. Seeking solace in the pastoral, but grove came out as grave and the lymph nodes, irradiated, naked

  • “Denise to the Rescue” and “Needs Art”

    Hello, this is Denise, your Poem Advocate DO NOT

  • Spectacle | Dear Bathtub | Freeway

    Your eyewear and my eyewear,

  • The Wayfarer

    When the wings of the triptych are open as

  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught

  • Showering Behind the Zodiac’s Curtain

    When blue hangs around me, I am

  • A Hole in My Backyard

    I get very nervous, I admit.

  • DEATH MARCH

    Carry her the way it has to hurt:

  • Last Christmas

    Your best friend had brain cancer

  • Somebody’s Got My Hair | Cuffed

    Somebody’s got my hair, I said to my lover, who stood in front of the mirror in a long white t-shirt brushing out her