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  • Seven Minutes with Afaa Weaver and Nancy Mitchell

    Were it not for his silver hair

  • From Bajo la lluvia ajena (In Foreign Rain) by Juan Gelman, translated by Lisa Rose Bradford

    On the tiers of experience.

  • Tattoos | Tattoos

    They come with stories. Like the woman whose thorny twist

  • Whatever Alights

    A zillion yeses to the titmice at my feeder,

  • Don’t Bum Out the Musicians

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

  • The Path of Non-Attachment

    Andrew totaled my car, leveled the house,

  • Burning Leaves

    Leaf-fires smell like

  • On Breathing and Not Breathing—The Sequence

    Once, a man stopped breathing

  • A Heresy Sublime

    An artist whom I’ve met is Dürer,

  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth

  • Want

    How do I want you? Let me count the ways.

  • Blueprint and Ancient Story

    The poem I want to build needs a vestibule