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Fame

The person was seeing his printed face superimposed over his real one.

Famous Fathers

I put my arm around Larry’s shoulders and ask him to pull over.

Far West

“The rattlesnakes glow in the dark, man. You should see them.”

Fathers and Sons

He will, no doubt, be out of this house soon, headed over to Montgomery.

February

The light, returning, nudged me from sleep, and walked me to dinner.

Field Trip

They’re shrieking down Little Round Top, receiving the good girls’ glares.

Figure Drawing

Lorna was like a sculpture carved by some Greek out of marble.

First Law of Thermodynamics and Other Poems

I’d have guessed the winter this way, every bitter plum already singing.

First Love

The jealous Othello, ready for murder, was transformed into a school-boy.

Fisher Cat

The social-media world was ablaze with his daughter’s bagunça.

Five and Other Poems

Welcome to my bed. I have these two beers, do you want them?

Five Poems

I’m going to save up against the flood and stagger to carry nothing.

Flames

His flannel sleeve dangled into the flame. Pretty soon, I was on fire too.

Flora

What right had Flora, of all people, to pronounce on what was strange?

Florence, Italy

In the school smock, I looked like an angel in search of her crèche.

Four Poems

Even the busiest of businessmen are out for the count, paying the price.

Four Poems

My brush an M-16, thirty-round clips for tubes of paint, all of them red.

Four Poems

At night the voices on the patio sound like small darting birds.

Four Poems

Soon everything here will be sopped up by time. Only art will last.

Frog

Let’s put a frog in his bed and have him feel it jump all over him.

From A to Z

Youth! Goodness! Joy! Hope! Strange things to bring to a place like this.

From Boshehr to the Caspian Sea

We crossed the length of Iran to reach a lake so big they called it a sea.

From Notes at the Grave of James Felix Quigley

Out there, my father captains a boat tour below the Cliffs of Moher

From The Invention of Mathematics

She already knew that deafening silence of a call gone unanswered.

From The Judas Ear

Don’t try to find me by spit, by genetic sleuthing, by Are you my?

From The Victor Poems

It was only a matter of time before the damp of loss grew within us like moss.

From “Fall Line”

I want you, you captive, delivered into each other’s territories.

Generalized Barotrauma on a Fifteenth Birthday

Her mother always complained Sara was different after a night at Judy’s.

Ghost Writer

A clumsy coyote descends an old hill of garbage. Death is visiting.

Girl from the Moon

Unnatural as a ghost; the thought rose unbidden to his mind.