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  • Maria Dolores, Mother of Sorrows Quilts

    She sewed them from the old

  • Me Showering

    I am showering, which isn’t much in itself

  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.

  • Pomade

    It has been so long since anyone has touched it

  • Notes on a 39-Year-Old Body

    Most internal organs jiggle and glow and are rosy

  • Elegy for a Landscaper

    The holes we find scraped out at the edge

  • Little Pea: A Brief Portfolio

    Sometimes I think I shouldn’t write about my past.

  • Olympia

    The ancient Greeks knew how to pick out a sacred spot,

  • Truce, Class Notes & On Rereading the 23rd Psalm

    My high school class of 1950

  • Three Poems

    Our lives are so brief, she says,

  • Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky

    There’s now a so-so year for you: 1933—

  • Kabuki

    A widow in Mississippi kept them in glass cases,