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  • Dog in the Manger

    As if you’d keep your bones from other dogs

  • Caroline

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he

  • Of The Heart, A Hymn & Interracial love affair ended by lynching of a man & let there be a song for zero

    Your name is ash

  • A Brief Portfolio

    As the fight went on my father set

  • The Afterlife of Breath

    My father dead on the gurney

  • Forced March

    I remembered it wrong, the scene in the film

  • from Sleeping with Bashō

    Growing out of clouds like a cedar tree—

  • Apology to My Husband’s Snore

    You goosehonk, one-note oboe or contrabassoon.

  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • Gifts | The List

    Books, your books, and blocks

  • from Landscapes on a Train

    There once was a church. There once was a steeple. These things fall into

  • The Discarded Christmas Trees

    lie on the sidewalks of New York: