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Perfume River

He does not dare to ask the question flaring in his head. Will she stay.

Perishables

Chuck had a grin, but Mike kept his eyebrows raised, very curious.

Pheasant Hunting

He was getting a divorce. I was married with two teenage children.

Phone Cards

Doctor, he devoted. When she poorly, he bring her mint tea in bed.

Photo Found on a Dead Man’s Phone

A field. No clouds. Tall grasses bend toward the foreground.

Pierre Rivière Spectacular 05

The citizens of Aunay believed Pierre Rivière batshit, dimwitted.

Pietà

The church was clearly the work of a madman driven crazy by the wind.

Pimp

In my eyes is the flame of the adolescent he wants to hire.

Pineapple

Lucy Liu, you show me I can come to fruition and yellow on my own terms.

Pity

Once I took it in my mouth, I had to admit pity tastes like sandwiches.

Plagiarism

You think I couldn’t write it because I look like a mechanic, I said.

Plutonium

I wanted just to like chemistry, because my teacher hailed from Georgia.

Poem Begun During Separation but Completed in Union

you here and these words also here meeting in your shared beauty

Poem for Our Ritual

Poem in the Contemporary Manner

Why don’t we just get drunk and walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue.

Poems from OBIT

Death is our common ancestor. It doesn’t care who we have dined with.

Poetry and Ambition

American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition.

Polyamory

Cory only hires stoners so he has something on them if they try blackmail.

Pond of the False Prophet

Under Saint Peter’s Gate, I put good foot after bad, and derided, I chased.

Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Woman

My mother taught me to rebel within the boundaries of acceptability.

Possessions

I was nagged by those boxes from my old life stacked in the garage.

Prank and Other Poems

cannibal chowder and a kiss by the splashing voices of a pool

Prayer Before Turning on the News

God, I need to know what happened to those who tried to cross.

Praying Naked and Other Poems

Forgive me, please, for continuing to believe that roses are beautiful.

Pretty Parts

“Tell me about the things you can’t tell me about when I’m dressed.”

Primal

All of this leaves me floating in seas of prehistory and indeterminacy.

Prime Green

A world of adventure awaited, a world of beautiful, available women.

Prime Green

We would just roll down the old biology road like all the other suckers.

Promise

What felt like sanctity now felt like nothingness, like death.

Promises

He folds on himself like a sheet kicked off the foot of a bed.