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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
1827 Sul Ross #1
"Had hardwoods and crown moulding / I thought I could afford. I signed the lease, / sick of driving everything I owned" Read more
Stanza Is The Italian Word for Room
"On benedick’s retirement, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the catholic church" Read more
Failed Seances for Rita MacNeil
"Rita, we are both members / of the fat neo-Scottish diaspora. / Don’t tell me it doesn’t exist, sweet darlin’" Read more
Festivities
"anything you wanted to keep had to be taken off your balcony / then on that day, Balcony Day / whatever items were still left out there disappeared" Read more
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