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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 You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing

I had forgotten how to breathe, and then I learned again, all at once.

Where’s the Beauty, Jimmy?

It’s like his bottom half is not man but a strong horse.

White Butterfly

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

White Nights

Can there have been something in my letter, that unlucky letter?

Winter 1940

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

Winter: Tonight: Sunset

I stop and look at the sky. Suddenly: orange, red, pink, blue, green, purple.

Women from Mars

He never stopped reminding me that I was born in Harmony, Georgia.

Yard Mercies

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

Yard Sale and Other Poems

Yeats on Wilde

“The basis of literary friendship is mixing the poisoned bowl.”

Yet and Other Poems

No more laughing like the waves. No more ocean of words to drink from.

You Said Eden Disappeared and Other Poems

As a child I wanted to behold the elusive squid, the patience of eels.