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Geppetto Also Made a Mother

It has its life, returning always to the ocean. It doesn’t care.

Ground Squirrels

Oh, won’t you lie here darling whistlepigs, here, curled at my side?

Ho, Beefalo!

The specimen, a man oblivious, is beautiful to behold, perfect, enough.

How to Disappear

For who can escape one’s twenties or browser history?

Hyperobject

I only divine the cat’s location when I hear its small cough.

Innocence and Other Poems

Phaethon thought he could drive the sun but was struck down to earth.

Lease Hound

There was one lease Homer Young wanted above all others.

Letters to a Young Writer

Not a single environmentalist holds out much hope for the future.

Listening to Angels

Abe shot himself, first year out of high school. Assholes said he was queer.

Margaret Atwood

You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Margaret Atwood Words and Music

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

Observations on Connectivity

Einstein postulated that space and time sit neatly on the same fabric

Of Course Pliny Got Here First and Other Poems

Some asshole on a joyride in the outback runs her down, the emu.

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Doctor Dressler left her a note: Suicide. Back by 7:00. Love, Max.

Oil

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

One Whose Soul the Titan Has Fashioned

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

Only in Things

How do wheels and wind-trash weave us into wakefulness?

Own Weather

Indifferent day. Sparrow fretting for rain gathers grass and seeds.

Packing Out

The danger was my own carelessness, and now I was waist deep in it.

Particles

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

Qiviut

Of what use, other than to the butterfly, are a butterfly’s wings?

Red Tide

I played a game I called ocean, resisted my need for air.

Road’s End

The roads have come to an end now, they don’t go any farther.

Saving Planet Earth

The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.

Sedna in Space

It takes you more than ten thousand years to orbit the sun.

Sixth-Grade Public Speaking

Whales are very big (I saw one on a beach once) but trash is way bigger.

Snapper

A Midwestern man is never without his knife. Half of us carry guns.

Something Distinctly Human

I was created in His image I had dominion over every thing

Spelter, West Virginia (Unincorporated)

A plastic Kroger’s bag caught in the chinking—Spelter’s only banner.

Still Life with Gratitude

Death will come for us so fast we will never be able to outrun it.