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  • ELEGY WITH FULL DRESS BLUES

    Early in our marriage I would stand

  • Flour, Eggs, Milk, Baking Powder, Salt and God

    O Best Beloved, tell me, if you know, why—

  • Love Talk | On the Way to the Casinos

    What the boy heard his older sister say—

  • Three Poems

    It’s good to see him young again,

  • Shaft of Light

    Smile behind the lips

  • The Wars Between the Wars Between the Borders that Were Not There

    You had to know how bad the Nazis were

  • Amaryllis

    Like the bell of an old Victrola,

  • A Brief Portfolio

    When Doris the hen

  • CYCLORAMA

    Only with such care could history take form.

  • To Anything at All

    Our father who is neither ours nor a father but farther and nearer,

  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,

  • Poem with No Content

    No, not even under reconstruction, you’ve been deactivated.  A breach of contract,