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  • Two Poems

    You search for the best doctors, try to curb her pain—

  • Looking Back on My Libido

    It wasn’t love; it wasn’t even sex—

  • Suburban Landscape, Summer

    Me, young and girlish, flesh not yet mourning.

  • False Elegy

    I sometimes feel as if my mother has died and I’m free to reminisce her final months.

  • from Canisy

    Whenever we lined up to march into class, the assistant at my grandfather’s school always had us sing the kind of

  • Coda alla Vaccinara | A Dusting

    From Keats’s grave, past the Paladiana and Coyote

  • Down by the River

    Down by the river behind the barn

  • Before Summer Rain

    Then, out of the green of the grove,

  • Nurse at a Bus Stop

    The slow traffic takes a good long look.

  • Circus

    How the squirrel, skittish, leaps, lobbing its orange

  • Kabuki

    A widow in Mississippi kept them in glass cases,

  • Dead Tree in the Back Yard & Gait

    You aren’t mine. A lot line