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My Fourth Fall

What were the unsafe things to say even in a thirty-year marriage?

My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem

There are parts of a man that are born again with each of his daughters.

My Mom Serves Tea to Her Robbers

She was so happy they were going to save her from the city of Dallas.

My Mother

My Neighbors Make a Ghost

Even Medusa was beautiful once, before the sea, snakes, stone. Any chimera is regal if you turn a certain way. Even Medusa was beautiful.

My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale

He looked a look of vicious happiness and eagerly pried the watch open.

My Whole Entire Life

I wanted to be a citizen of the empire called American Express.

Mysteries of Love and Grief

Name-Dropping

It’s been a rainy, relatively windless fall, the aspen leaves clinging.

Narrative 10

Don’t write what you know. Write what you can imagine.

Narrative 10

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

Narrows

The dope worked, though he felt ashamed using it, smoked in secret.

Nasya Krevoshay

It suddenly seemed to her that the world was filled with little miracles. There were moments when love overcame her despair.

Natural History

The owners of the rental left three gifts on the kitchen table for us to enjoy.

Nausea

The baby won’t sleep until 2 a.m., not until he poops and throws up.

Navel to Knee

Today brings a blue hour, but the jasmine has been dead for weeks.

New Year

The grass is defiant, wild, and reluctant to take any shape.

Nick Will Be Successful Influential & Will Marry the Pretty Girl and He Didn’t Even Go to Yale

The graffiti suggests the most essential story of New Haven.

Night Fishing

Anchored off Biscayne Bay my father’s wooden skiff swings easy.

Night in Day

We spit out the black seeds, bits of night glistening on the grass.

North to Natoma and Other Poems

It’s been months, and the fields are good for nothing but night talks.

Nostalgia in February

I want everything to mean. To have worth and weight. But it doesn’t.

Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts

Standing there in our small shadows, we discuss the ways of the dead.

Notes on Time

Time, now more than ever, is of the essence. Time is all there is.

Now’s Dream

That what I call my Self is asleep, and has dreamed up these lilacs.

Object Permanence and Other Poems

The end’s already in motion, the end was starting this whole time.

October Phone Call and Other Poems

How many gods do you believe in? How many good men?

Ode to Repetition

She’s not the same, her body more naked in its aging, its disorder.

Ode to the Boot Scraper on the Stoop and Other Poems

Mostly, though, you could turn them in your hand, hold them to your nose.

Odysseus’s Mother-in-Law

If party isn’t what we set out to do then you should go home.