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  • The Killing

    While Abraham binds his son’s hands,

  • [There was the way his mother]

    There was the way his mother called him baby-faced that made me defensive.

  • Ancestors

    Farther back than my grandmother

  • The Transit Hall on Pier 86

    They say there’s a place in the brain for faces

  • To Urania

    Astronomer who rules the tides and skies,

  • POSTCARD WITH A CITY’S AERIAL VIEW AT NIGHT

    To think that each lit window there

  • Braid Him Into the Earth

    Knee-high coffin of wicker, earth-boat floating through the woods.

  • Little Night Owl

    For hours I’d lug her on my shoulder,

  • The Sailor’s Love Song and Irish Whiskey

    When I was young I burned to be

  • Two Poems

    All the twists in all the tongues, all

  • Three Poems

    After we moved to Tiny Town, Mom started selling huge Egyptian harps that were larger than the tiny houses.

  • Poems for the Absent One

    Mother death,