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  • The Plumber is Here

    The plumber is here

  • The Public Servants and Amateur

    To be delivered by a sad man standing in a single light.

  • Ode to the Google Maps Man

    Gold-suited spaceman, terranaut,

  • Wraith

    I never walk past that gate I don’t recall a rifle butt, two sharp yelps,

  • Same Screen

    Every summer the students at the Bread Loaf School of English

  • Four From Delos

    Saw the ring of her

  • To Isabella Franconati

    After your husband died and the cypress trees,

  • The Transit Hall on Pier 86

    They say there’s a place in the brain for faces

  • The Movie My Murderer Makes

    My murderer sits in row F, seat 3, just behind my wife and me, in row E, seats 3 and 4.

  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • Instruction on Driving with an Orgasm | Napoleon’s Hat

    Look both ways before going out for a spin. And ease onto the road. Take careful note of the speed limit and

  • Two Poems

    All the twists in all the tongues, all