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Poems

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  • Innocence

    The birds she could identify—nuthatch, oriole—

  • The Uncanny

    Suppose a rational man

  • The Wind Cried Mary  

    In 1967 when Hendrix coaxed, Are you experienced?

  • Wordwell Triptych

    chronic lapse

  • Today’s Comedy

    Why Dante in summer?

  • A VARIATION | MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED | HART CRANE

    Why ask to know, twin and neighbor,

  • To Anything at All

    Our father who is neither ours nor a father but farther and nearer,

  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.

  • NIGHT SPIDER

    All day he waited, then

  • For Your Eighteenth Birthday

    Not a car nor papa’s advice.

  • The Doorway | Wants

    Two things she wanted among the left-behinds when her parents moved

  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,