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Black Squirrel Poem

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disorderly black squirrels / inhabit upper Michigan

Parables for Rodin

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His beard is an eighteenth-century forest / in south central France

Precipice of Questions

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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions

Bone Density

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Madame Fauve, / with a twisted braid, is dancing.

8 New Ways of Looking at Waffles

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the soul (in its annihilation) / waffles

J.D. Salinger's Toilet Put Up For Auction

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Everybody will be talking about it on campuses across the country “Hey! You’ll never guess who’s toilet I bought. I’m not shitting you!”

Poem with Radiometer

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Four vanes pierced by a spindle, a cotillion in black and white. Moving in atmosphere lighter than air, one searches out the other moving away. As inside the glass, outside. You move slowly through me, and light bounces from one skin to the other,…

Eclipse

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A woman is walking her blonde dog when the world disappears. Shadows sweep across the moon and swallow the houses like trick swords and carnival fire. Things like that should be packed away in a trunk, hidden in the back of a truck someplace where …

Why Is This Woman Smiling?

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I was at the doctor’s office They had a poster of the Mona Lisa and the caption underneath it read: “Why is this woman smiling?” Well, it wasn’t because she was over 50 and had yearly mammograms It was because she was 20 something

Chicken Over the Ocean

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take me into your arms, God I’m a duck I used to be a seaweed what went wrong

eve

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she lays there wrapped in his baseball sheets

Pharaoh ... Pharaoh

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I woke up on my back with my face in the sunlight and thought, I guess this must be heaven, it was so bright out. Except for the buzzing of the insects. They will always bring you back to earth.

Roof of the World

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She ripped the roof of your mind off and you began writing like Dylan Thomas in the wind like Hemingway in Paris Bukowski on booze like Vladimir Nobokov on girls You began seeing the folds in the world like Picasso th

Purgatory

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her finger traces knee scab perimeters

The Chase

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A man rounds the corner, zigzagshadow reaching for the womanwho steps out of it. A latecomer, he can't catch up to the lady strolling through dusk that blazed gold only this morning,…