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  • Mourning and Melancholia

    If I had two dogs,

  • City That Cultivated Our Voice

    Back then, everything was only starting,

  • ON THE RMS QUEEN MARY | LATENT IMAGE

    I'm exploring the decks, the ship docked in Long Beach since '67. Same liner Mom sailed in '39 from England to

  • MR. DARCY TALKS

    Mr. Darcy talks to the same woman

  • Trudy Cooks Fish and The General

    The fish seemed fresh that night, as if they’d been caught off the coast near Zanzibar

  • Tolstoi Learned to Ride a Bike at an Age When Most of Us Cash in Chips by Annette Barnes & Stuart Friebert

    There we were, watching the parade, while he climbed up

  • Remedios Varo’s Locomotion Capilar (1959)

    Riding the bicycles of their beards,

  • The Labors of Psyche

    Because I could not not-know any longer I held the lamp over him

  • Judith Beheading Holofernes

    No one ever read the Book of Judith to a slave—

  • Before Things Got Bad

    After the mayor closed all the parks

  • Over the Bright and Darkened Lands | Out in the Tranquil Bay

    I sit in one of the dives.

  • Ancestors

    Farther back than my grandmother