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Willamette Shipyard Blues

Oh they pay me well. I make a small fortune. Yes they pay me well.

Window Washer

The window washer smiles a little and licks his lips. Nadine smiles back.

Winnipesaukee and Other Poems

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

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.

Witness

“When we heard the horn, we left—our faces wet—not looking back.”

Working Title

Without a working title, a poem could muddle meaning, confuse purpose.

Worksong

No one else ever seemed to mind working side-by-side a murderer.

Wrapping Fable

At the core, a daughter is a self-reckoning emptiness.

Writer’s Cottage

Something is wrong with that place. Someone’s still there . . .

Wyalkatchem Stories

A rumour went round that the Australians had bulletproof clothing.

You Can’t Keep Going Like This

Not the Olympics, the guard said. Just chuck yourself down the tube.

You Don’t Know What’s Good

They had been good girls. They stood by him when he killed a man.

You’d Be Thirty Today

I froze because, the absurdity. also, the urn had a loose-looking latch.

Zee to A

Dr. Zee knows his son is struggling up out of some chemical fog.