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  • A Meeting

    Of all the disappointments

  • Four Poems

    The word for light is light

  • Barn Red

    Home alone, I swirl on scarlet lipstick and forget that I did,

  • God’s Man

    When I was twelve I found it

  • Blueshift

    In another life I’m a cosmologist, lungs snow-

  • We Came This Way to Know the Evening

    Here’s a riddle:

  • Three Stages of Friendship and Grief

    I was wondering if your eyelashes had fallen out

  • Excerpt from poem by Im Yunjidang translated from Hanja (via modern Korean) by Suphil Lee Park

    This shapeless blade

  • Enchanted Egg #2

    When you look inside through the tiny porthole the lake looks back without blinking.

  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention

  • One of a Series

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

  • Alone at 77 & I Arrive at the Scene

    Unhungry, he cracks a single egg.