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In Sickness and In Health 0
Song at the End of the Mind
I think of you as a radio frequency— sometimes hard to find as I touch the illuminated dial. But tonight you arrive murmuring into my ear ...
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In Sickness and In Health 0
Intensive Care
No figures here but pulse, breath and pressure; no metonymy of fate but a real hand cold upon a real sheet. What could any actor speak more piercing ...
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Eastern Screech Owl and Northern Goshawk: Two Poems
Eastern Screech Owl Outside my daughter’s window— she’s eight—a screech owl in a pilfered nest in the hollow of a horse chestnut tree. The squirrel squawks, ...
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In Sickness and In Health 0
Your Fire and Thunder
-for Dr. Li Wenliang They muzzled your warning — the virus spread. It killed you, killed the family of generations, and killed those delaying ...
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In Sickness and In Health 0
I’m Trying to be a Person
I’m Trying to be a Person on whom nothing is lost. I have ruined several custards with scalding impatience. Not a good ...
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In Sickness and In Health 0
Widow
God, You carry this device in my chest called love & I – a child of infertility – choose you to sterilize the left testicle of intimacy ...
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A Declaration: Forbidding Mourning
This is a time we’d like to forget a virulent inflection that pains and yet cannot last unless we let it, This is the way it flows, a ...
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Poetry 1
Are You a Self-Identified Black Woman?
Are you eligible to partake in academia? Question your acceptance letter? Not writing the other perspective? Missing the point of the assignment? Do you get Tarantino’s postmodern ...
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