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  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.

  • Ode to My Dap

    Soon as I get my dap down

  • Silent Night & Pleasure

    If you dare to let yourself out

  • I open the windows.

    What I wanted

  • Burning Leaves

    Leaf-fires smell like

  • The dream and Useless is as useless doesn’t

    For awhile I had a drawer full of electronic stuff,

  • Classmate

    I was at the beach talking with someone else

  • Night Watch

    It’s instant art:  transmuted to the net

  • Toys

    Your toys, my child, hold them dear,

  • from “From Nothing”

    One note, another, in the parlor’s angled light,

  • Wooden Boards

    My father carefully rolls his pant leg up, places his leg between two wide boards. He tells my mother to jump hard on

  • RETURN OF THE HERO

    So they brought in a bird for him,