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Shotgun Lovesongs

He was living like a coyote, out on the margins. But then a letter came.

Silvering

Gravity bends together this planet and your life, made of glass.

Sins of Omission

I hope I do not baffle or bluff. I hope I will not raise your hopes.

Sixty-five Million Years

Perhaps he was not almost sixteen years old, but thirty-five and sick.

Sky Tongued Back with Light

You’ll find me here in the peach orchard, the most I can muster.

Sledding

The thing was, I didn’t care what I ate in front of a woman. Every day, I told her things I would have been too embarrassed to tell anyone else.

Sleepy

Hearing the baby’s cry, Varka finds the enemy who is crushing her heart.

Smoke Bushes

I bought two for my wedding, planted them in pots on the patio by the pond.

Snapper

A Midwestern man is never without his knife. Half of us carry guns.

Snowy

The owl was a white that could not be compromised by any other color.

Society

Society was imposing, like something out of an English drama.

Solstice Litany

I was nineteen and mentally infirm when I saw the prophet Isaiah.

Some Half-World

My imagination has been weak lately, caught in some half-world.

Someday the Desert will Sing

Through all this the sands kept vigil, harboring blood and bones.

Something Lost

Mr. Holt had grown old since Beverly last saw him. He looked weary.

Sonoran Song and Other Poems

For eight weeks no one heard my voice for eight weeks no one slept.

Starlight

All night, rain from the distant past. I sometimes waken as a child.

Still Here, Still There

Here they were, two surviving soldiers from opposite sides.

Stitches

The girl I was could not have imagined the woman I grew up to become.

Strangers

No one is dead, but you should come back. See what’s become of us.

Strangers

It was half the Spanish he knew—stop, I have a shotgun.

Strata

Truth, it seems, spills from movies and sitcoms in the wires’ wake.

Sugaring Season

Screaming, the children flew toward the trees in their saucers.

Suitors Know Best and Other Poems

I stuff cotton in my ears, bits of bird’s nest, anything to stop all that talk.

Sundials Are Sad Like That

The shadow carves the hours while the Latin inscribes

Sundowning

Superwhite and Other Poems

There was a fish. And then there was the consciousness of robots.

Sweet Juice and Other Poems

We cling to an exact number of planets, to the Earth Our Mother.

Symptoms of Optimism

If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you time is a language I don’t speak.

Syrinx and Other Poems

They need to be named, loved, then unnamed to be seen once more.