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I know that hairs
on my head go singly gray only
by night.

I did lose my dirty fingernails and ragged legs, my purpled forearms.

let me fall through some small bore into your tiny breathing eden

Don’t send me home without a round of applause if not a title.

All the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring.

she will unchew the dried bulbs of history, spit them at the foot of her post.

You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.

If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.

I never entered no-man’s-land by any light brighter than the palest moon.

When we watched jellyfish, Mary Kate wondered if they dreamed of land.

Praise the ease of it: how simple it is to tell the dog he loves her.

I hear my brother’s wife whisper, It’s her again. Let the machine get it.

The summer Victor died, his dad spoke to no one but the canaries he kept.

Before April rings the chime, she forces her way up out of herself.

With my lime-green nitrile gloves I carried him around to the others.

Sit beside me. Old country, I am hopeful and troubadour.

Fletcher was a squad leader. He ought to be able to get a girl.

Oh, how fascinating it was, watching it all! It was exactly like a play.

I am going to relate to you the most lamentable love affair of my life.

I’m guilty—locating my gratitude against someone else’s suffering.

The heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them.

Cheer and cheer and cheer she sings a song on nesting wings.

through the trees, breathless, the grouse leads us steady as a rope.

The horse is in the air, her legs withdrawn, a diamond shape.

I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife.

It ends with a flourish like smashing a glass in the fireplace.

It’s been a rainy, relatively windless fall, the aspen leaves clinging.

I make peas and argue with a wall. Something gets stuck like that.

As you watch the picture and begin to notice more, the nothing grows less.

She knew Jim would be a terrible husband. They’d murder each other.