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  • Houses

    Under the cold light of the chintzy white crown chandelier, I’d lean one upright card again

  • Shifts and Song for Sally

    Middle school cafeteria duty monitoring ungainly, dour

  • Closed Eye Vision of Independence Day

    Dazzled drunks are bent over with laughter,

  • The Window Light, The Dead Boy Isn’t Dad & The Window Light Again

    Painting around the windowsill

  • Romanian Lessons & The Country of Leaving

    Godmother country,

  • It’s Not Just Trains

    The ticket office was closing

  • Eclipse

    November’s moon is in eclipse—

  • To Isabella Franconati

    After your husband died and the cypress trees,

  • Last Words

    If only for those you leave behind,

  • Three Poems

    I’ve seen demons, each one tossed

  • Portrait of My Father as a Snake

    I was dead. The hospital around me

  • GDR CHINA | LAMB

    My housekeeper had the dishes brought