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PoetryThe Voodoo of Doll Shoes
when she came home crying I knew you were deadafterwards at the market I would pick up pot roasts chickens a bag of onionstry…
PoetryWHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE A POET
*you wanna eat *you like sunsets a lot *your mom said she’d buy your book * you like to read * you know you…
PoetryHolding the Center
The day I learned of my student’s suicide, I walked five miles, the first three to remember him, the last two to feel his…
PoetryJanuary thinking
Custom's a deep pond flat reflective surface but deep in dark, wet infinity purpose sits a silty bed. To wash a loved one's limbs…
PoetryIn Three Parts
The Opening Up here, just above the peak, time percolates, bursting forth the seconds and minutes fresh as beads of dew on velvet moss.…
PoetryA Big Pit
1. A Good Hiding Long curved drive from main gate like a rich house. Six Security guards sit in an old building, play cards,…
PoetryThank you
..for the holding of doors, for the genial face on the other side of a window, for the waitress with a smoker's voice who…
PoetryI’m Going to Let Myself Go
Three avocados rooting in the window and a Meyer lemon cake on the sideboard are yesterday's lessons of contrition. I tell whoever will listen,…
PoetryWriting Group
I wonder sometimes what became of my writing friends from college life, like the guy who retyped Nick Adam stories and kept a folded…
PoetrySweet Treat
I locked the back door then opened a window, the air thick with dry cleaning solvent and steam. Rod had just left, the pebbles…
PoetryIn Love with a Woman in Her Later Years (for Harmina)
She is slowing now, I observe from my corner. She glides through the morning room tending her plants with the long-spouted watering can. A…