Poems

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  • Essay with a Grain of Salt

    Salt on black silk
  • The Silver Bullet

    When I wasn’t washing my hands, I remembered
  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,
  • She Dog | Mermaid

    A ticky rain of blood from
  • Snow, an essay and The Day After the Day Without a Yesterday

    Or, the winter I kept being turned into a pillar of salt.
  • Reading About Keith Jarrett This Morning in the Paper and Ode to the Table of Contents

    how he probably won’t play in public again
  • Small Scenes without Apology

    Remember the daughters.
  • All That Evening

    You woke slowly
  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,
  • Licks

    We each were given three licks
  • On Contemplating a Sheep’s Skull

    Skull aged so much in rain and heat,
  • Elegy for Jane

    Blue cab grapes clustered on trellis