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  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,

  • The Conscious Fruit Fly

    This means fruit fly the scholar.

  • The Fruit Bat of Taxidermy

    Whoever the taxidermist was,

  • Forced March

    I remembered it wrong, the scene in the film

  • How the West Was Won and Crack in the World

    Build a garage on the roof

  • To Be That Boy, to Be That Horse

    I’ve watched a shy horse

  • Canary Island Date Palm, Love & Ink and Persephone

    Couldn’t say the dream I had last night.

  • Given Plums

    Early July my sister and I filled two sacks of plums from our orchard. We shook each tree until the ripest orbs fell

  • Wolf Wine Bar

    Two years ago, maybe even two and a half

  • Unfinished Business

    Cleaning up, in the kitchen, she goes to wipe away a small black seed from the counter.

  • Two poems by Sandra Moussempès, translated from French by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

    A house stands out from the rest of the forest, emptied of its occupants for centuries

  • BIRD

    I lived between the hemisphere of songbirds and the hemisphere