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Panda Bear   Because he was terrified of loneliness, he granted me life and the ability to share with him what little time he had remaining....

When the world seems a dungeon What might a lily With all her being Wish for? Her aim is true Toward any sun A bold rankness An unceasing Ob...

Jah Rain Got to have kaya now Got to have kaya now Got to have kaya now For the rain is falling -Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Kaya...

The Eastern Hemisphere The blood trade- it stains your throat skulking around Astrid’s blown-out town I’ve been asleep for centuries dreamin...

The Incredulity of Thomas An index finger points the way from beneath the altar at Santa Croce Church in Gerusalemme, Roma. Postmortem exami...

Pencil marks I park in the cul-de-sac, stop at the bottom  of the driveway and  grab the mail from the box. The garage door’s open so I take...

In the Wheelhouse Kill it with fire Bury it at sea The destination  Never meant that much to me She sails herself now She sails of her own a...

The Writer Working Hard     This morning I put the apostrophe in and this afternoon I took it out. Oscar Wilde’s comic wit about the writer ...

The Three Largest Cities In Europe I keep watch in your sleep, unwitting expressions I name like the birds, a tremble, a sigh, like you’ve r...

Light, Shining   Out of the coal-seamed earth    layers of leaf-fall    April's tender buds    July's verdant green    blackened, co...

The Heroes Things were so gray when we were young We just didn’t know it. Till now, The world was sky-stabbing castles of stone, Dragons gut...

Geistergarten I don't exist—I happen.   A daydreamer’s story: “I told people he was my lover. I think he worked in a sexy profession. A...

Dark Matter   Why, is a question I’ve never found the answer to.   We do not even know why the galaxies are flying apart instead of collapsi...

Message From the Center of the Universe - for Burley Creech Lightning-flash. I see a man with rugged hands at the pasture gate who loves me,...

Cabin I. I built here, against the river, when the channel sent the spring melt hard along the far shore, watched the wild white water from ...

passing gardenias spread across pavers with scent of mother-in-law, while leandra smiled into an empty glass at her peaceful passing disturb...

New York System Hot Weiners in hot-pink and blue neon beckons on a hot Providence evening throbbing with Latino music as my daughter and I s...

Within The Blue blues the night descending trying to name a single color and giving up the night descending cape of summer in the mountains ...

Alligator Proof alligators are intelligent; for one, they show great restraint their primary prey is the wood duck; they might float steadil...

Drink While It’s Hot, Honey Tea is what you’d made that first night I was kicked out. Hot like salt water is hot, but sweet where salt water...