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  • A Different Origin

    When the snake in Eden approached Eve

  • The Oklahoma Purchase

    William Howard Taft wouldn’t drink before dark.

  • PASSING

    They lay the old woman in the back seat of a car,

  • Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot

    Past midnight, a man in his late 60s, tall, with long

  • Don’t Bum Out the Musicians

    At St. Paul’s church, the musicians have heard it all.

  • Two Departures from Rilke

    Terrified past panic, strict lines collapsed,

  • Signaling to You

    You live with a young leopard and a poem levitating in the gravitational landscape.

  • Nice Dark One

    Yours is a noble bio, one note

  • After the Invention of Polystyrene a Ligurian Goat Crosses the Equator

    Abut in a tailspin, mad spark

  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth

  • A Sampler

    As you hold your breath, like a watchman waiting for sunrise. Let’s replace immediacy with a swift cataclysm, replace

  • August 3rd

    After twenty horrific minutes, I think she