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  • PROTECT YOUR HOME (Interpret It Well), a short film with music by Ches Smith

    The composition has two movements, one slow and one fast.

  • Salvation, in B#

    Bigtime Baltimore, new

  • The Authentic Galleries

    Begin again.  Begin with the wound.

  • The Day

    Day I didn’t blink and the day was gone.

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • The Maker

    The maker never uses thread

  • Bodies on the Margins

    The artist understands blood; or rather

  • At Once People at the End of Their Lives

    come from common spaces to move around

  • Blown Away

    There’s something stuck in my throat, it might be the red-eyed

  • Green Girls

    Wriggling on the bottles:

  • Somewhere in Eastern Europe

    It was the year the townsfolk

  • Three Poems

    I gave my mother