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  • Joy

    Even when the gods have driven you

  • Taking It Back

    Two weeks past Epiphany,

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • THE BEAR IN THE WHEELCHAIR

    The bedside window is cracked a little, for fresh air presumably, and a lopsided venetian blind bangs softly in a

  • Canine Elegy

    All over town, dogs are lying down

  • Chekhov’s Gun

    Atonement means nothing to a cook

  • Ophelia

    Where stars sleep on the calm black waters,

  • Ars Poetica

    The shell of the papershell pecan can easily be broken

  • Incident in the Park

    Working back from the moment I rose off the bench,

  • BUSH | SERIAL

    Warms thieves.

  • Tool & Die

    In the final unburdening, massive crates are moved

  • A Heresy Sublime

    An artist whom I’ve met is Dürer,