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Doctor, he devoted. When she poorly, he bring her mint tea in bed.

Photo Found on a Dead Man’s Phone

A field. No clouds. Tall grasses bend toward the foreground.

Pierre Rivière Spectacular 05

The citizens of Aunay believed Pierre Rivière batshit, dimwitted.

Pietà

The church was clearly the work of a madman driven crazy by the wind.

Pimp

In my eyes is the flame of the adolescent he wants to hire.

Pineapple

Lucy Liu, you show me I can come to fruition and yellow on my own terms.

Pity

Once I took it in my mouth, I had to admit pity tastes like sandwiches.

Plagiarism

You think I couldn’t write it because I look like a mechanic, I said.

Plutonium

I wanted just to like chemistry, because my teacher hailed from Georgia.

Poem Begun During Separation but Completed in Union

you here and these words also here meeting in your shared beauty

Poem in the Contemporary Manner

Why don’t we just get drunk and walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue.

Poems from OBIT

Death is our common ancestor. It doesn’t care who we have dined with.

Poetry and Ambition

American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition.

Polyamory

Cory only hires stoners so he has something on them if they try blackmail.

Pond of the False Prophet

Under Saint Peter’s Gate, I put good foot after bad, and derided, I chased.

Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Woman

My mother taught me to rebel within the boundaries of acceptability.

Possessions

I was nagged by those boxes from my old life stacked in the garage.

Prank and Other Poems

cannibal chowder and a kiss by the splashing voices of a pool

Prayer Before Turning on the News

God, I need to know what happened to those who tried to cross.

Praying Naked and Other Poems

Forgive me, please, for continuing to believe that roses are beautiful.

Pretty Parts

“Tell me about the things you can’t tell me about when I’m dressed.”

Primal

All of this leaves me floating in seas of prehistory and indeterminacy.

Prime Green

A world of adventure awaited, a world of beautiful, available women.

Prime Green

We would just roll down the old biology road like all the other suckers.

Promise

What felt like sanctity now felt like nothingness, like death.

Promises

He folds on himself like a sheet kicked off the foot of a bed.

Pryor

He smelled like the bars my mother took me to in the middle of the day.

Publishing in the Digital Age

There’s this cool magazine online. They let people read it for free.

Publishing Partners: The First Eight Books, 1970–1985

They don’t dance but simply monitor our movements, like bodyguards.

Quieter Than Water, Lower Than Grass: Growing Up Afraid in Russia

“Why don’t you say anything, people? These thugs are murdering me!”