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  • The Wayfarer

    When the wings of the triptych are open as

  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved

  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze

  • Two Stories and a Poem

    Do you have a canned ham?

  • Someone Is Walking the Pig

    Someone is walking the pig in our downstairs hallway, where the shops are.

  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain

  • Almost Nightfall

    City lovely in its concocted dream, there

  • The House

    With stained red awnings

  • GDR CHINA | LAMB

    My housekeeper had the dishes brought

  • She Said She Saw Vowels

    underneath her birdfeeder

  • The Deposition

    I get to school early, take down the crucifix.

  • BETRAYAL—ORANGES AND APPLES | EEE EQUALS EMCEE SQUARED

    I am a plastic tree, naturally