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Poems

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  • Vesuvius

    No gazette ran the story,

  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I said goodbye to a friend who left a hole filled

  • Dog in the Manger

    As if you’d keep your bones from other dogs

  • The Immortality Ode

    Bill Evans is quiet, fingers still above the keys, But ready to begin again and

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • ALERT

    My phone sends me an alert:

  • Horoscope and American Upanishad

    Two hearts can charge the moment they meet,

  • Ant Story

    Each ant was given a different part of the message to carry.

  • Translation

    Food is a door you have to open

  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--

  • On Breathing and Not Breathing—The Sequence

    Once, a man stopped breathing