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  • Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, On Freud’s Birthday [May 5] & In Vienna

    The first movement of Tchaikovsky’s

  • Cry

    Bring back our dresses untorn

  • Unbeckoning Glass and Time Faking Surprises

    This color is exhaled smoke from a bummed cigarette, a stray cloud for the sky.

  • THE LIGHTS ON THE BOATS

    I didn’t start this to break anyone’s heart.

  • Approximations

    Waking up in a borrowed room, in a body

  • April

    I think I will accept my life, the moment

  • End in Itself

    All veins point to a heart in depleted rivers, in branches,

  • Tolstoi Learned to Ride a Bike at an Age When Most of Us Cash in Chips by Annette Barnes & Stuart Friebert

    There we were, watching the parade, while he climbed up

  • The Discarded Christmas Trees

    lie on the sidewalks of New York:

  • Don’t Know Much About the French I Took

    I silently disapproved when they said, “Let’s go French

  • Vernissage

    Survivors of a volcanic explosion, cross-

  • Snowfall, with Reconciliation

    How old winter is. However much we stain