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To an Overly Helpful Husband of Advanced Age

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in which a man who is bored with years of retirement poses a threat to himself and others

Amateur Theory of the Universe

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this could be true

Friday Briefings

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They could occupy the space// left by creatures larger and more/ evolved.

391 Costume & personal appearance

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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.

No Word for Enchantment

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fanned lashes on rouged cheek a glamorous sea creature in violet perfume

Catalog of Backgrounds

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nowhere after nowhere

A Requiem For The Heavyweights

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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...

January First

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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning

K2

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Now it's late. I am hanging upside down from a rope coiled around my crushed left ankle, the pain too sharp to be really felt, as the excess blood to my head makes my thoughts fuzzy. I am almost two meters from the rock face, thirty-five hundred meters above sea-level, the…

Saturday TV with Dad

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By the sixth - Dizz, Falstaff buzzed - Croons - The Wabash Cannonball

annah la Javanese. Gauguin

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Her feet are raised upon an embroidered green pillow and she sits naked in a blue velvet chair. Red earrings dangling from her ears, while a red monkey sits at her feet with one leg extended. She is exotic. A powder blue on her lips and at her navel,

Muffled

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A poem not about fog written in fog with an erasable pen.

Filter

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The brain taints everything it brings to us/ with its limited apparatus, its precepts,// all the things it thinks it knows.

Catching Mitt For Sadness

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He stops smiling and only says he loves me when prompted, as if asking me to pass the salt for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.

Dashboard Jesus

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When I first started this, a few months ago, I was timid about looking people in the eye.

Study in Contrast

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But tonight while your finger glides across the glossy pages of Popular Science I hold a séance for the Holy Spirit in utter seriousness among the book clutter and crumpled manifestos in the basement

Déjà Vu Sur l’Herbe

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While watching the ever-present crowds passing by on my insides, I noticed, by accident, a man smiling who might have been me, not sure. Maybe I’m eating soap for the first time, because I am either frothing or foaming at the mouth. An

Mama Blues

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the stars might be the audience or they might not be if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty

The Caselvetrano Olive

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He spotted her in Sarasota Whole Foods surveying the artichokes

Abyss

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When Lois finally found him down there, Johnny was wedged between a large rock and the trunk of an old, long since fallen, cottonwood tree. She said as she got to him, she heard his gurgling breath, fighting fiercely to stay alive. When she saw the deep, gathering, red…

The Lobbyist

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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.

Nine Women

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"Haven't you ever had some little thing you would rather everyone just left you alone about? I don't like to have my picture taken. Please don't ask me again."

Confinement

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Even music relies on what/ you know as music/ for its power to enthrall.

Trade-Offs

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Smiling, holding hands, Joe and Lara basked in the sunshine of the mid January day as they approached the diner. The temperature was warm enough for golf. Joe had played in far colder weather in spring and fall.

Playground in the Fire

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People questioned my motives when I became a smokejumper again. They said I had a death wish, or that somehow by going into battle against the big Pacific Northwest forest fires, I was still trying to put out the flames of the burning car in which my sons Jake (age…

Piggy Bank

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we had a million pennies

Easter: A Non-Fiction.

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Then I found myself in the water.

Song of Unself

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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm

things to know about the people parked along the road that runs though Humboldt Park: part 19

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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.

11am, Sunday, in Green

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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.