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Of the God That Comes to Mind

Relief workers tore swaths of insulation from the rafters of the house.

Oh Father, Your Fear

Is it that he is too tired or too afraid to blink into the oil of his own machine?

Oil

I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.

Old Friend

I arrange your five deflating basketballs under the lonely net.

Old Lovegood Girls

She had come to the scene where she needed to get them in bed.

Old Stories and Other Paintings

Eros, myth, life, and literature in brilliant paintings by Lincoln Perry.

On Luck: A Screenwriter’s Education

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

On Marriage

The proper qualities of each sex are eternally surprising to the other.

On the Fourteenth Day without a Father

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

On the Isle of Fast-Flowing Waters

My dear, even my ear is trying to eat itself in its attempt to forget you.

Once Again, in August

I continue composing my love letter, hoping to love her more.

One of the Great Independents

When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.

One Whose Soul the Titan Has Fashioned

You are with outsized footnotes that have tracked across the Internet.

Only When

As a shadow I arouse you will you believe the truth of my mouth.

Oracle

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

Origin

I remember a field too long as the stem of a pear chosen in Upstate.

Origin of the World

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

Overcast

Eight years, and she was ready to call it quits. They were both ready.

Overdue

Mom often went to work on her days off. The library was her refuge.

Paean for Dinner Dates with Sarah

We are everlasting. A friend is a friend is a friend in a string of lives.

Pandemic Villanelles

It was the year we learned to wash our hands. That was one lesson.

Pardoning

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

Part of a Traveling Exhibition

It’d only take a slight shift to realize his new world isn’t a danger to him.

Particles

I don’t remember being born, only the great dog whose fur I clung to.

Partition

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

Peace in Autumn

My world must not be made of brief encounters along the neat squares.

Peach Philosophy

You must not be afraid of what waits after death, my past self says.

Peaches

I am almost never standing in the ocean, not that way, not anymore.

Pensées

The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.

Perseids

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