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  • My Raincoat Opens Doors for Me

    It holds a door open above my head.

  • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, Age 51

    Rembrandt, I aspire to your self-portraits

  • Boots and Bayonet

    My platoon a loose group cross-legged

  • Coattails

    When I was eighteen, I wanted to write a screenplay based on my father’s life: from his birth in poverty, how his family gathered around one scant meal a day of potatoes and onions

  • Doorbell: 5:14 AM

    The policeman touches

  • Two Poems

    Save forever my words for the taste of a smoke and disaster,

  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,

  • To the Poets Dropped from the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

    Au revoir, Walter de la Mare!

  • Rue Delambre

    As soon as the plane takes off the city

  • when you ask me if you are a good father & cook up meets god

    look     we know how this will play out

  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel

  • Crazy Hairdo, Crazier Head | Some Things to Consider Before We Proceed

    Spector pinned down twins LaFlora and LaFauna like butterflies, trimmed their