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The Recording Angel

Years they sought her, whose crew left on the water a sad Welsh hymn.

The Red Studebaker

If your father were here, he wouldn’t put up with your insolence.

The Reds

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

The Rescue

By chance you saw. So much had become chance in your life.

The Return

He resumed his nightly practice of writing without being able to see.

The Rotten Ones

We chose to stay in the brutality of that night, even as the girls walked away.

The Servants’ Quarters

Ma didn’t believe in slapping. It was what common people did.

The Shortstop

I understood that for us there would be no mourning the shortstop.

The Spooning and the Fork

This would not be a wooing meal. I was cooking my man into submission.

The Stand-In

They’d been together an hour, but they were an easy threesome.

The Stylist

Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.

The Summing Up

I thought it was beauty alone that gave significance to life.

The Teaching of Writing

Young people have a gift for reviving freshness of language.

The Thomas Cantor

He will be unable to resist his manias for symmetry and completion.

The Town That Believed Wolf

Surely a million mothers and school teachers can’t be entirely wrong.

The Tracks

No parent has yet been born who can save a child from childhood.

The Traveler’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed

We were young and lived wild lives in the delightful city of our sojourn.

The Treatment of Bibi Haldar

Her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.

The Victims

When I think on it, I can’t believe I’m going to kill two people over weed.

The Waterwheel

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

The West Oakland Project

West Oakland was characterized by unemployment, poverty, and blight.

The Widening

Spanish men. They whispered and whistled. It made her jumpy.

The Winter Soldier

He was ready to move on, to touch his patients, to cut them open.

The Women

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

They Were Blind and Other Poems

Fatwas condoned our arrest for the rouged contours of our lips.

Things That Don’t Keep a Lightning Bug Alive

Where my mom was wasn’t never far from the Myrtle Beach Days Inn.

This Cat

The cat was looking at me with an intelligent expression. It knew.

This Kind of Girl

She looks down the street for Scott’s truck. He’s late but so is she.

Three Poems

Condemned to an easy life balanced on the suffering in another land.

Three Poems

All the bears in the zoo look pathetic. Their eyes glazed, bodies lethargic.