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Hitler’s Bathtub

They found her where such girls are found. A Manhattan street.

Holiday Gas Station (Corner of Fourth and Higgins), Missoula, Montana

The mountains out your window make Central Park feel rinky-dink.

Homily and Other Poems

Here lies the girl difficult to discern. Here lies the girl misanthropic.

Hope

Snug in the spell of a cradle rocking, I remember the first time I floated.

Horse & Rider, Part 1

This kind of heart-wrenching love was different from all the others.

Horse & Rider, Part 4

I’m not the girl for anyone. I can’t just go be a wife.

Horse & Rider, Part 5

Eliza Frye

Horse Thief

He calmed the animal with song while loosening the slipknot.

Hours in a Library

The great season for reading is between eighteen and twenty-four.

How It Began and Other Poems

I could feel the floor’s slight pitch. We were in for a long, long voyage.

How It Is

He doesn’t have to lie about oatmeal. That’s the way things are for him.

How to Disappear

For who can escape one’s twenties or browser history?

How to Read a Poem

My advice would be not to trust. The ocean is just the ocean until I say otherwise.

How to Talk to Your Mother

Ask your mother about babies. Ask her about the baby that died.

How?

As the whorled fingerpad loves Morse, but more so. Worse.

Hugo on Harris

He had come to weavers’ Harris to make some testament.

Humming

Our hopes swirled around the act of swallowing a teaspoon of yogurt.

I Am the Lion Now

Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live without really living.

I Can See Your Underpants

She’s a blushing peach waiting to be plucked by practiced hands.

I Did Like Butter

It had always been this way. Mothering, for my mother, was a cameo role.

I Escape from the Boers

I was free. The first step had been taken, and it was irrevocable.

I Lost My Pen, I Lost My Keys

I lost my pen, I lost my keys, and my hat somewhere on a table.

I Miss Somebody Still Alive and Other Poems

On Saturdays I listen to folk music, lead a life devoted to exodus.

I Search for Koreatown

I can only say I am here searching solo for remnants of Seoul Drive

I Too Dislike

She sits in her wax like a candle. A woman comes, a woman goes.

I Will Meet You at the End

Take my hand, lead me by heart over the blind stepping-stones to the edge.

I Would Have a Woman as Real as Death

I give you a real blue song the mountains hold under their foot.

Ice Fishing

I’m just wired hard for hunting, and not so much at all for fishing.

If the River Was Whiskey, If I Was a Duck

They’re not, and it’s not, and we’re not, and only a god can save us.

Ill-Advised Love Poem

Come live with me. We could plant acorns in each other’s mouths.