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  • Some Propositions with Children | Changing the Subject

    The child is completely immersed in childhood

  • KINDNESS DETECTOR | TRUTH IN ADVERTISING |

    It looks like a bamboo flute, but has a motor that draws air across a copper plate treated with chemicals which,

  • 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

  • Masque

    Lamplight blue cushions

  • Zone 

    This ancient world finally leaves you weary

  • Aunt Rolla

    She had the softest face

  • The Widow at Point Reyes and Broncoscopy

    She sat for an hour watching 10,000 tiny silver fish

  • Alien Valley

    I’m sick of prodding the infinite,

  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • Fish Belly Poem and a poem by Wang Yuyang translated by Arthur Sze

    Dr. Xia Kejun said today:

  • Were We So Fragile?

    What promises didn’t you deliver, beautiful Life!

  • Delete the Bird

    My will was just a constant cuckoo