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  • Confusing Myself with the Whippoorwill

    Today, I was a madness of regrettable actions. At the convenience store, I eyed the cashiers warily as they slouched in

  • SPITE FENCE | THE HUMAN CANARY

    My neighbor forced his abutter

  • Two Poems

    My nearsighted eye is for splinters, the threading of needles,

  • Three Orgasm Poems

    She thinks success would be her best revenge. It’s not enough for her now, merely to be alive. Or to feel bliss in brief

  • Bending Truth to Advantage

    From Robert Lowell’s poem “Those Before Us,” these final lines: “Pardon them for existing.

  • Square of Beveled Glass

    Hag––first thought.

  • Braid Him Into the Earth

    Knee-high coffin of wicker, earth-boat floating through the woods.

  • Three Poems translated from Argentinian Spanish by Lorena Wolfman

    Entering the house from the back without letting anyone know,

  • Errand

    The fawn was

  • AUDITION

    Once through an ancient stage door, past a sign

  • Three Poems

    I dropped a sprig of laurel into your grave

  • Cotton Candy

    At first it gives like a sponge, elastically, and you think you’ll only make an