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HIEROGLYPHIC
HIEROGLYPHIC The imaged Word, it is, which holds Hushed willows anchored in its glow.
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HOW OLD MEN DIE
HOW OLD MEN DIE i. Now I’m a sow’s ear, dog food.
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THE LOVELIFE OF WALLACE STEVENS i. Give each word the soft blur or fuzz of a peach, the faintly Spurious purr of a kitten or pearl at whose…
THE LOVELIFE OF WALLACE STEVENS i. Give each word the soft blur or fuzz of a peach, the faintly Spurious purr of a kitten or pearl at whose acute core…
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June 2025

May 2025

O PELVIC BUFFALO HEAD
O PELVIC BUFFALO HEAD Buffalo Gal won’t you come out tonight, Come out tonight, come out tonight, Buffalo Gal won’t you come out tonight, And dance by…
FELIX CULPA REDUX
FELIX CULPA REDUX i. Yesterday we saw again, (so still alive!), the fox we saw a few days past, Felix Culpa, (Happy Sin), nonchalantly trot across Route…
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ALL OF US
A young, or else malnourished fox--carrot/red, mottled white, pale gray--/Cautiously trotted across traffic heavy/Route 77, my path, that/I cannot say…
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TRANSFIGURED PIGS
TRANSFIGURED PIGS i. No changes in the world, Cervantes.
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CRUEL APRIL JONQUILS
CRUEL APRIL JONQUILS i. No sun today, and my queerly weak-ankled jonquils Have begun to fall on their faces one by one, purple Little sons of guns…
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from BEST AMERICAN POETRY
To all the white boys who love me when I’m manic and hypersexual and drunk and, how should I say, easy, when we share a kiss inside the cab or when I…
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A DEAF AND DUMB TREE
That's me, for I should be so lucky, a deaf and dumb tree on a walk around the block.
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