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  • GET ON YOUR PONY AND RIDE | BIG WHEEL

    You are under the impression that my poems

  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon

  • Wilhelmina Shakespeare

    Blond hair, blue eyes, buck teeth:  we taunted you

  • Ode to Scars

    The scars on others’ faces draw me to them.

  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—

  • Seven Minutes with Afaa Weaver and Nancy Mitchell

    Were it not for his silver hair

  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e

  • Three Poems

    Our lives are so brief, she says,

  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.

  • YOUR PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE | A fragment from The Llatease of Homey, from a recently discovered Mycenaean text.

    I glance and

  • THE STREET

    Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick vine

  • Getting Old, Thinking of Keats

    Even though I’m old now