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  • Carbide

    As he approached the river a little Fiat drew off the main road and parked among
  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,
  • Who Pays

    Lord I have eaten and I don’t
  • THE FLOWER AT THE END OF THE WORLD

    It was a 1954 Ford pickup truck that stopped
  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors
  • Plait

    When I first knotted my hair against the coming of winter, I had grown tired of playing jacks and didn’t yet find boys
  • Just Before Sunset in December

    It must have something to do with the angle of the earth
  • Two Poems

    I thought I bought more soap
  • Toshno

    Marina is trying to describe Raskolnikov’s interior state
  • 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

  • Reflection

    I am a lion
  • Charcuterie

    She penciled fanciful animals