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Poems

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  • Threnody and Sylvia Plath

    The train coach, Jean—empty except for you,

  • from “From Nothing”

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

  • Little Torch

    First there was delight, delight in the windchimes,

  • A Story about the Bees

    I still have the bees

  • Acne

    And I’d see it that way, the word, all

  • The Rainbow Sign, The Shirt and After All

    God gave Noah the rainbow sign,

  • True Bug | I Will Be Good

    I’ve been talking to a bug all winter.

  • Nesting & a triptych

    At my parents’ house nothing is in boxes, nothing is packed.

  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English

  • Inner City Canal

    This water tumbling over the canal locks

  • One of a Series

    My daughter sees the sky from another angle, slate-blue reflected in a lake called living. 

  • Two poems by Natalia Toledo, in trilingual translation (Zapotec to Spanish to English)

    Mantis mantis I want to know