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The Hot Country

El Presidente was no longer in a mood to see the American press.

The Hotel Macabre

At straight-up noon, the honeymoon was ruined, one day in.

The Idea of Antarctica

Pinned to the wall, it looks uncannily its own language, trick of the camera.

The Internet

I’ve sinned. Cannot be saved. He was a child. Surely he went to heaven.

The Istafahan Bowl

The dark creatures are still, yet they give life to the whole mountain.

The Lady’s Murder

The Lantern-Bearers

These are notes that please the great heart of man.

The Last Artist in New York

Living as the last artist in Manhattan: it’s the ultimate test of commitment.

The Little One Need Not Come

The house of our relationship is a fort. Blanket fort. Tree fort.

The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday

The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.

The Lucky Bastard

It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.

The Magic Piano

Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.

The Man Without a Shadow

This is not deception. This is a subtle way of conditioning.

The Manzanos

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

The Manzanos

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

The Measure of All Things?

Any society that fails to protect its children is in terminal decline.

The Memory Theater

We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.

The Mentally Ill Are Not Alone

“He’s a mad dog on a chain. You don’t stick your fingers in his mouth.”

The Mountains of Korea and Other Poems

He whispers words that sound as miraculous as the skinned fish of the clouds my father writhed like pentecostal snakes while he drove drunk

The Nature of Nostalgia

Our visions of the world fade like the morning star, lost in the light of day.

The New Dark Ages and Other Poems

This storm scares me. A foreign climate occupies the land.

The New Lustration

A man sits in the Institute of National Memory examining files.

The Nightcrawler

He only told the world what the world wanted to hear from a guy who graduated from Harvard.

The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There

No fountains to quench the thirst between rounds of tag.

The Palace of the People

Part of me wished I’d never tried heroin. The rest wanted to be high.

The Part That Burns

Mafia didn’t like me, except for the tickling game. It went like this.

The Photographs of Your Life

I saw it on her face that day, a look like her heart would drift into the sky.

The Poem Is the Story

Sometimes a story is like a beehive. Sometimes an idea is like a poem.

The Poultry Trader’s Daughter Inherits the Business

Every dawn you’d toss the feed, your hands faithful to the good work of rising.

The Promised Land

She must know she was a mistake, what they call now a surprise.