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  • Learning to Play It Again

    While my daughter was learning Clementi —

  • Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime

    Southern Flower, I want to quote the bard,

  • The Occupant Imagines the House as a Great Fish & Eight Things…

    It has already swallowed a century, each year a silver iridescent scale.  For eight, she has lived in its belly,

  • Not the Way it Was

    Today I overheard a conversation

  • Writing Under the Influence of Me

    It means I drop things, and I keep turning

  • Poetry: A Mirror, a Pencil and an Envelope. Seven Minutes with D. Nurkse and Nancy Mitchell

    In this candid interview, D. Nurkse reflects on a long life in poetry and political activism

  • The Deposition

    I get to school early, take down the crucifix.

  • Unfinished Business

    Cleaning up, in the kitchen, she goes to wipe away a small black seed from the counter.

  • Alone at the New Year

    An instant of awe, then, afterwards,

  • Four Poems

    I don’t like it

  • Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke

    door to heaven? portal of wheres in a modern mound.

  • The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title

    Over distilleries’ rooftops, angels tipple