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  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.

  • Love Talk | On the Way to the Casinos

    What the boy heard his older sister say—

  • Drive-in Double Dare

    In gravel dust and starlight, after the hummingbirds fe

  • Rome/Glasgow: Early March

    Our favorite time to visit—cool air for all-day walking, in

  • Nail tr. by Anita Gopalan

    A piece of heart that doesn’t pain on breaking

  • First Words

    In the marriage booth at sleep-away camp,

  • The Romantic Poets

    If anybody needs a head

  • St. Rose of Lima

    Lips weary with chapped hallelujahs,

  • Into the Flame

    And you lay for decades counting sheep

  • Across the Wide Missouri

    It’s toward the end of the season.

  • On Delta Flight #2164 From JFK

    I'm headed home from a stint at Long Island's

  • Words

    Words are loyal.