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  • The Muse Writes Luis Jorge Borges A Letter On His 86th Birthday

    The night has entered your eyes

  • Objects in Mirror Are Larger than They Appear

    That beautiful girl on a bicycle smoking a cigarette:

  • Painting

    all things look as if

  • Poem

    I’m going to pretend I’m a painter and just

  • On the Banks of the Allegheny

    We had started over again—

  • Who Will Plant the Seeds of Svalbard and Orchard Fruit: Grafting

    as far north you go     as night you go night 

  • In the Vanguard

    It takes a few notes, a very few notes, to undo the bare bones of a person. Where formerly we were piecework in a

  • On the Way to the Acupuncturist

    In the wrong lane, the slow one—

  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain

  • In God’s Intestine and Goner

    The husband, who has accepted Buddhist precepts,

  • Half the Time

    In an emergency

  • Sunday in Connecticut

    I drive into town.