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On a Day That Is Cold

The birds have all flown to Mars for water and Crisco and red.

On Birdsong

The hymn that’s resurrected from the hymnal aspires to the spiritual.

On Nancy Hale’s “Flotsam”

This is a crafty story and things are not what they seem to be.

On the Aggrieved and Other Poems

A man drunk on the damage he made to a boy’s young mouth.

On the Fourteenth Day without a Father

In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.

Opening Day

I cradled the lifeless bird in my hand and marveled at its beauty.

Oppressive Nights

Not long after Christmas, the smoke really hit Melbourne.

Oracle

Put out to pasture, flop down into clover, alternate to the glue factory.

Orange Berries Dark Green Leaves

It is like the call of a voice the call of a voice that is not there.

Oregon 1945

On a jet stream, unearthly, air can travel at hundreds of miles per hour.

Origin of the World

Fly through 13 billion years of history in this graphic story.

Orisha Poems

The woman who raised the woman who raised me was a mistress.

Out Pruning

In the garden this morning, I thought for a moment I saw T’ao Ch’ien.

Outsider

The Bengalis negotiate their space with corrupt politicians and landsharks.

Owakare: The Great Parting

The stories of terror continued well after the tsunami had passed.

Own Weather

Indifferent day. Sparrow fretting for rain gathers grass and seeds.

Packing Out

The danger was my own carelessness, and now I was waist deep in it.

Pardoning

My daughter swallows arrows of sunlight on her way to the grave.

Partition

The fog’s sheen is a mirror: my mother sees the terrain of the future—

Passing and Other Poems

You can tell by the walls whoever lives here doesn’t want to be seen.

Perishables

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

Perpetual Care

A poetry of texture and light runs through these photographs.

Perseids

How can we go on believing each day won’t be the one that flames out?

Pe‘ahi Poems

I see the garden far away in itself reflected in the polished spade.

Phosphenes

A question from one of your favorite songs what would you do

Photo Found on a Dead Man’s Phone

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

Pick Your Switch

“Pick your switch,” says my father and I’m stepping out into the forest.

Picnic Point

The fish’s eye is mangled, tugged inward; blood leaks from its gills.

Pig’s Heaven Inn

Before we too vanish, we hike to where three trails converge.

Pineapple

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