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Quiver and Other Poems

It wasn’t the bees I thought to tell but wasps the evening you died.

Rae Rae

My mother hoped moving would erase the affair with a married man.

Rainy Season

The transformation of their maid from shadow to sexpot thrills Maizie.

Reading from His Story “Screenwriter”

As soon as her grandparents left, BLAM, the dance in her died.

Reading from His Story “Screenwriter”

My first suicidal ideations occurred to me when I was ten, eleven, twelve.

Reading from Intercourse

Here I am, king of the gods, making a fool of myself just to get under your gown.

Reading Her Poetry

I was once a rider of mastodons, a waitress showing skin.

Reading His Poetry

She does not know within a decade she will unload a slug into her mouth.

Reading Rilke and Other Poems

The men here don’t know where to place me, call me exotic grail.

Reading Sebald and Other Poems

When I’m reading him I feel myself come closer to you than usual.

Red Dress—1946

My head was muffled in velvet, my body exposed in an old slip.

Redemption

No one asked that, changed as he was, he do more than survive.

Reflections on Newtown: No Safe Place

If it were fiction, calling the place Newtown would be too much.

Refuge

“Refuge,” Nina said, tilting her head back; it was a word she learned.

Rein

my baba sits in a midwest garage with the hood propped open.

Relatives of the Dead

The dead man’s suit coat
 is a good fit through the shoulders.

Remembering Robert Stone

The legendary author Robert Stone, in the words of his friends.

Requiem

If angels were made of music, surely they would vanish.

Return

I sobbed even through hymns sung too gently to lend me cover

Return and Other Poems

Descent jumps and jostles, nausea drops me back to the floodplain.

Reverend Thornhill’s Wife

Her previous existence seemed unreal, now, a faint rumor.

Reykjavík the Beautiful

She looks in the mirror above the sink, and her image makes eye contact.

Rhymes with Thigh Gap and Other Poems

Richard

He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.

Rings of Saturn

The rings of Saturn flash their nothing yellows, nothing blues beautiful.

Ringworm and the Blue Madonna

Nothing was permanent, no friend I made, no math test I took.

Romeo

When one of the Baxters yelled, “Hey, Turd,” we all turned our heads.

Romeo to His Juliet

Let’s span a time with each other. The mutual will give us pleasure.

Roommates

Annette. Such a little bit of a person. Emma couldn’t get over it.

Rough Cut of Snow

I have wasted your childhood, photographed you too much.