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The Fine Arts and Other Poems

Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?

The First People on Mars and Other Poems

You can always tell the military folk by their even stance, their steady gaze.

The Hanged Man

Will you bless us, who are so in need of blessing? The world tires.

The Internet

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

The Lady with the Little Dog

Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”

The Leaf in My Pocket and Other Poems

Thus is the way of leaves the secret ones that no one sees, not even me

The Little One Need Not Come

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

The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight

We entertain them. We kiss and spit and strike. We’re always changing.

The Lonely

I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.

The Making of a Writer

Write simple sentences. Report. Don’t moralize. No pretensions.

The Misses Moses

Miss Moses smiled, I could take you, buster. Don’t try anything with me.

The Monkey’s Face and Other Poems

The face of love is a poem I am writing in an air-conditioned room.

The News from Hell

The stupider the president the more power you arrange for him.

The Only Way Out Is Through

Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.

The Outlaw

I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why.

The Poet

I know quite well that I’m still a beginner and have a long way to go.

The Portrait of What Is Not There

The noiseless trees, the insentient breezes that are not there.

The Promised Land

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

The Reds

The moment in your drunk when you become rich! A connoisseur.

The Romance of Elsewhere

If you want to know what to write, ask yourself what obsesses you.

The Royal Reykjavík Sex Tour

We were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.

The Runaways

“Now, just what brought you down all this way?” they wanted to know.

The Store in Which I Am Turned to a Widow

Outside of Ikea’s window the nighttime wind tilts like a folk song.

The Sweater

I hold out hands, empty and poor like a beggar by the temple door.

The Trees Named “Glowing Embers”

Little footage, this plot, where it thrived at first, then ghosted away.

The Unwed Mother

Never mind the gossip of the world. Don’t have it, yet have it!

The Waterwheel

The boys searched for their father, lost somewhere in the Olympic Range.

The Woman Who Was Small, Not Because the World Expanded

This is the woman who had shrunk so small, nobody could find her.

The Women

She asked, “What’s the weirdest thing you can do with your body?”

The Woods

How do our lives disappear even while we’re in the midst of them?