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Her father's job

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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”

The Bride was a Corpse

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6% of anorexics die of their disorder, most of sudden heart failure.

In the Air a Shining Heart

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In the air a shining heart, wet lungs releasing and releasing, your sweet milk head, your pulsating skin. Only an inch separates us. A shimmer of hot air trembles like boiling water above the highway. There are seeds floating in the sky. These things will become other…

solace

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the frost has made all tender greens bow

Lunkers

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We’re friends and all but we’re just me and him friends, we’re not the kind of friends that you bring to supper.

Hubbled

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The nearsighted world/ puts on its lenses

Alice Invading the Garden

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I'm Alice invading the garden, looking for souls among cards

Europe

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On the way over, on the ship, I met a girl from Cleveland.

Voice of the Century

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Feminine, safe, though disembodied,/ she shapes your life in ways/ your mother never could.

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

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A portrait of my sweetheart drawn while she is asleep: a passed-out angel illuminated by the light of dawn coming in from the bathroom window, one of her shoes missing.

The Tide

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Five Uneasy Pieces

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Eighteen-layered canvases were prized by both of them, regardless of whose work appeared on top.

The Pennsylvania Kaufmann House

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Falling Water almost fell./ 12 million dollars later// it will splay itself a little longer

Four Brief Poems

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The eyes, luminous and large- each an infinite bright blue ocean Wind ruffles feathers My ego and vanity also/ encourage me not to wear a mask. An aberration/ that general circumstances/ will remedy, and soon.

There's No Crying in Poetry

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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski

Diary of a Marriage

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Well, it’s a cold dance we dance this morning. You are up at the crack of dawn and the bed is empty even before you leave. I pretend to sleep so I can revel in the delicious morning ritual I know will be ending soon. I hear you brew coffee, shower, tal

Beige

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She bought a lamp that looked like a woman's leg in a fishnet stocking, you know the one, to provide warm, yellow light under her desk.

Magritte

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Arriving at the pier I see a sailboat in dead wind. "That is pathos," Magritte says, pointing to a barnacle.

Variations on a Theme by Pina Bausch

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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch

Gardening

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Something about the Garden of Eden. That it isn't really a garden, and I'm not even sure what Eden means.

The Hunter

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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...

Drought

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burnt-up leaves rustle and fall

Stop-time Animation of the Cosmos

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Reality for us must be broken so we can fix the one small insect of it we can capture and pin, wriggling.

Swimming Pool

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My glasses fog up every time I go to collect her from the pool. I'll never get used to glasses. When my sight got suddenly worse the day she was born, I didn't tell anyone. As she turned from baby to child, my love for her grew, and my world got smaller,

Black Squirrel Poem

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disorderly black squirrels / inhabit upper Michigan

On The Death of A Friend

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I heard today about your friend

How Religion Got Its Start

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In the bearded sun, I see a golden goat.

How To Rescue A Drowning Man

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Maybe you should consider a few more things before embarking upon actual rescue, like: Is the victim hot? Not stove hot, idiot. Beauty hot. Will this be a triumph to save this person (like perhaps they are some Nobel laureate), or are you risking you

My Coyote

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I say her- it might be him-/ but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.

The Atlantic

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Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote this of them