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What They Found

Her city, but no cats. Specks of color, no cloth.

What Would You Have Me Do?

We’d never had a cross word, but I’d never corrected him.

What You Mistook as Ultimatum

Wrung taut & tender at the soft play of fingertips, we breathe desires. Laughter takes refuge in bodies no longer coaxed to move. Nature becomes a thought.

Whatever’s Left of Normal

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

What’s Happening

Where will we go and how will we steer when the cars are gone?

When I Lose and Other Poems

Re: murdering democracy, oiling the shore, shearing the rain forest.

When the Enemy Is Illiterate

Make yourself the site of purposeful failure. Take the never-again path.

White Butterfly

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

White Moon Rising

I never actually existed. I didn’t know it at the time, but it’s clear as day.

Why I Don’t Want to Live Forever

I make a point of smelling the lilac every day that first week in May.

Why I Have Decided to Live

Because I can love every small thing.

Wild Snow

My job requires me to make things disappear like a Vegas magician.

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 Missive

I feel unnatural, half a human face smothered in deep light.

Winter Solstice and Other Poems

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

Winter: Tonight: Sunset

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

Wintercearig Waltz and Other Poems

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

Wives

Her mother singing out the window at trucks slamming the other way.

Wood Ducks Again

I hike, I bike, I tap at this keyboard. I survive—and I’m still an old man.

Words for My Father from Salmon, Idaho

The world smells brand-new crisp the way an ax cuts fire wood.

Worksong

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

Writing in October

The slow-falling leaves contain the space of the story I’m pursuing.

Writing It Down

There were so many tired, frayed words thick in the air around her.

Wyoming Skies

A new Wyoming photography portfolio from Twister Marquiss

Wyoming Spaces

A new Wyoming photography portfolio from Twister Marquiss

Wyoming, Summer 2010

Twister Marquiss

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

Year of the Great Voyage

Our eyes searched for the island, but ahead there was only overcast.