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Two Poems

My brother could Wichita wheelbarrow like I never could.

Two Poems

Not all his children love themselves. Look at little Adrienne.

Two Poems

A car curved left, leapt the curb, and came at us like the line of a bullet.

Two Poems

Dan Gerber reads poems of boyhood, and from the end of his mother’s life.

Two Poems

In that world I was a fish too eager to enter the nets; here, I’m a river.

Two Poems

Rebecca Lehmann

Two Poems

You can stand on the edge and tremble with fear or risk your life.

Two Poems

My “lonelymaking.” Also known as my horrible secret, continent-wide.

Two Poems

I want to sleep in a bed next to a man who won’t dream of me all night.

Two Surgeons

Two surgeons vaulted over a counter to hold open my incisions.

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

It is the one day that is purely American. Yes, a day of celebration.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.

Ubi Sunt

When the light failed she listed all the places he might find her.

Underaged

All I could focus on was if he was going to ask me to date him.

Underneath the Bonfire

Men came over carrying lanterns and pulled away the chunks of ice.

Unknown

The sense all along has been that there’s some madness in her.

Unmedicated Self-Portrait

I don’t know you, I only think of you to ignore how unhappy I am.

Unsystem the System

We could use our arms to squeeze or hold or load not a gun, not a gun.

Untitled (Woman Brushing Hair)

She takes her hand to my scalp: eyes close as if tasting lemon cake.

Upon Asking the Cashier at Kroger to Scan That Old Tattoo of a Barcode on My Forearm

Turns out my body’s a dollar sweet potato, her screen said.

Upon Seeing Two Checkboxes under Sex at the Doctor’s Office

We could have everything and still be hurt.

Using a Cane

With cane in hand I felt a twinge of superiority to the crutch people.

Vanishing Point

The kissed fingerpad touched wet with wine orbiting.

Vespers

No one plans a trip to the emergency room. No one succeeds.

Victoria’s Secret

He’d always wanted to kiss her thigh dimples but never dared.

Vodka on Ice

Cerberuses ran in packs, terrorizing drunks who fell in the snow.

Walk for Mankind

The door opened, and Dan stormed in, shouting, “Motherfuckers!”

Water Path

All my life I wondered what it is to vanish like a ring of smoke.

Waterline

If only to hold on by opening lord give me this one eighth day