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9-5You hide yourself in the corners / Of your desk, the soft bits tucked away / Behind your vest—
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Feb 5, 2017
An Interview With My Father, Former Town TreasurerYou never know / what’s going to happen. Back then / there were more teachers than students
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May 1, 2013
A Sonnet for Disappointing, Too-Drunk-NightsThe night, my face, your hands: The world is damp. / What else is there to do with all this weight, / but sink into the autumn grass, sedate,
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Feb 5, 2013
A Weekendhandpicked blueberries in yogurt, / tea on the porch, Ellen, / in desperation to plant a raspberry bush.
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May 5, 2013
Corinthians 13Somewhere--between the last time I smelled rain / and now--are the clanging voices of angels / resounding without love, like rusted brass gongs
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May 28, 2014
Days of EileenBefore I met him and learned to scream, / my hair hung thick, sheets of burnt oak wheat. / Rebel strands clung to my arms, trailing
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Feb 5, 2013
Dear Stranger,I met someone all stretched out / with kindness and life experience / minus a college degree. One year
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Feb 15, 2014
Death of a Hollywood RomanceShoeboxes in the upstairs prove / when veins were tight and hair was / that shining, gleaming, streamin,’
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Feb 5, 2013
Eating AloneWhat keeps you sharp, / hardening your bones against / the soft dark, between
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Mar 2, 2014
e.e. cummings blurred and *****Her tongue in cotton, / a crack / between her jaws:
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Mar 2, 2014
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