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Subscribe TodayTwo Poems
if you go poof with a lip and a matchrubbing a lip on a sparkand on a vulvaand on a rosebush the color of a…
Narnia
today let us go to sleep nakedlike an ordinary husband and wife like loverstake off all our clothes pants cardigans sweats parkasstuffedwith passports medicines flash…
Terminal Radiance
An excerpt from Radiant Cities Just before sunset, Bernard will take his usual route. He will pull the dog along the pathways as she sniffs…
The Wellspring of All My Suffering
It was rumors, at first. Maybe rumors is the wrong word—an urban legend. Or a myth, a terrifying myth. Someone was going around and turning…
I Went Into a Wand
I would see her eating in restaurants alone. I was attracted to this quality—she never looked bored or lonely, eating alone in restaurants. I once…
Someone Famous
I once dated a man who wanted to be famous and loved only that which might give it to him. I sat inside my unfamous…
Van Gogh
I must reimagine my life, as I imagine wheat fieldsendure their controlled burn to make roomfor the spring, and my hand blots houses in rowshouses…
Locating the Wound
The occasion occurs like all dreadful things: erratically, zippy-paced.An electric shock, a hornet sting, a nail’s peck upon the sole.Briefly and at random, plainness halts…
Three Poems
A Little Garden Room, or Assisted Living And will I arrive tomorrow also?Here today doesn’t count. The project is at 1 o’clock.The project is a…