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Killing me the rest of the way
"'Drink up, Joe. Hell is closed.' / laughing out the side of his mouth / Killing me the rest of the way." Read more
Little House
"My house is the smallest oldest little house on the block / neighbors tour over and look down / call the fire department." Read more
Marriage Poems
"In her dream, my wife said I abandoned her in the middle of a strange city forcing her out of our car." Read more
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Sappho Questions Medusa
"Desire, he said, wants what is not in reach. So reach for me and dance me out of death." Read more
Burnt
There was a fire in your former home, it was on the news. You brought me here, once, in my youth when nothing impressed me. Read more
October 1869: to smoke their pipes and sing their songs
"lug like trunks,/ steer like plows/ pile like lumber..." Read more
Harm Reduction
"It’s 6 a.m. when the lights turn on / in a white-washed drugstore, / as if it were a little theatre / shining out onto the sidewalk." Read more
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