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What We Have

It was spring: the field, a botanist’s mirage of wild flowers.

What We Once Needed to Know

We are good at thinking we can stay. We are good at finding hurt.

Whatever’s Left of Normal

Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.

When I Think of Early Romance I Think of Fishing

I wouldn’t know what to do with the body, gills pumping like an accordion.

When My Brother Tells Me I'm Obsessed with Sadness

it’s hard not to be obsessed with your own shadow I don’t tell him

When the Flock Changed

She had yellow cat eyes that she insisted were also blond.

When Things That Never Happen Happen

The next time we made love, I looked for the fox looking down at me.

Whippoorwill

A whippoorwill called, a lonely voice among the cedars.

Whirlwind

The lion was still near them, stalking. Crazed against its cautionary nature.

White Butterfly

Across sage flats, tundra, and bleeding hearts, she escapes.

Why I Can’t Sleep

Blame the juncos outside. Sopranos in one tree, altos in another.

Winnipesaukee and Other Poems

No one was awake and I was hungover young as clean as a piano.

Winter 1940

You have your apron on under your coat. We’ve got each other.

Winter Solstice and Other Poems

Yes, Sweetness, a white shadow shimmers on the X-ray of the future.

Wintercearig Waltz and Other Poems

You and the cat wish I were baking pumpkin pie and we were happier.

Wood Ducks Again

I survive my small wounds—and I’m still an old man.

Yard Mercies

A bunny the size of a teacup feasts in the clover, ears lit up in salt-pink light.

Yokai

“Ki o tsukete!” she called, and he knew the words. Be careful.

You Are Welcome Here

The damn dog has been brainwashed. He doesn’t know
us anymore.

You’re Part of This Too

It was the way of the world: everybody wanted someone else.

[Gloomy Octopus]

I read an article and learn that the gloomy octopus has three hearts.