Browsing Category Poetry
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Explosion Rocks Springfield
The Friday evening gas explosion in Springfield leveled a strip club next to a day care. I remember the breeze right before… Burst of—was it willow—slant-falling. The gray ...
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The Wedding Toppers
A bride and groom, two figurines, topped a wedding cake. After the wedding photographer had backed into the cake to try to get a better shot of the ...
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Bird Skull with [ ]
A poem of erasures and passages in-between, of negative space and images with holes right through the heart of them ...
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Passport to Brooklyn
Have you forgotten which bus takes you down Flatbush Avenue—ballpark where on Saturday afternoons, a beer-bellied mechanic rounded the bases all the way ...
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THE KING DIED AND THEN THE QUEEN DIED
E.M. Forster’s definition of plot is less about plot than the length of narrative you drag around. You hear it all the time: after sixty years of marriage, ...
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TO PARADISE, I GIVE MY HALF-FORGOTTEN DREAMS
I. So this is it. Is it singular in itself still, whole, inviolate despite the many depredations? You can see slender branches waving gently in the dispensation of ...
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Boxwood Hedge
Citizens, drive! from radioactive waters in the Southern provinces, arthritic still and disappointed. O neighbors and colleagues Come out of your FourRunners, etc. Empty your cars of ...
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NOW, IT IS JOY THAT IS PROHIBITED—THE THING THAT ESCAPES ALL ECONOMIES
Oh no, do not follow the Peruvian President's daughter on Twitter ...
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Ideas
Aphorisms for a Lonely Planet
It is easier to photosynthesize than to say I’m sorry. What we lack possesses us. A side of sad gives joy its curious twang. To go far enough ...
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SWITCH OR AXE
Because someone has to go back, I return to that boy showering unaware of his stepdad listening at the bathroom door with its little hook for the lock. ...
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Poetry
EXPEDITION NOTES
"I would need to/learn to half-sleep standing up, always alert for/the leaf that could fell me." ...
