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  • SOMETHING LIKE A WING

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he hid in his

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • SIXTH GRADE REDUX

    Good morning, Ladles and Jellyfish!

  • Naked City

    Apprehended in Herald Square carrying the head of his sister-in-law

  • UBI AMOR IBI OCULUS EST

    Flumes of the late night

  • The Happiness on the Other Side of Happiness

    Kids swing and old men sit. That's the way

  • The Birthdays of the Dead

    It is an affront in their land

  • Received Wisdom

    A horse fence

  • Family Once Removed and Who Cooks for You?

    I like to be alone

  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention

  • Faust 1972

    This time, Faust was a nursing mother --

  • Liebfraumilch, Scale and Season

    Our new son, fallen asleep