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Doesn't TranslateI am your denial, your Lent fast / The mania in your DNA, / the way the helix twists around itself.

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Two Weeks from Now*I never leave the West when it isn’t raining,* / My brother says to me through the phone. / He is on his way back

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For JulieIt’s not the first cool day of autumn, / but it’s the first that won’t end / until April, if ever. The hail covers every crack

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Maharaji M.O.She found a propeller in Portland / and carried it all the way to Eugene / under her arm, this western artifact.

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In DreamsThis road is every dirt road, / every grassy ditch and wheat field; / that hill near every river. The stairs

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Quantum Entanglement*“The atoms that comprise life on earth are all traceable to the crucibles that cooked light element into heavy element.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson* / And up here we have Vega, rigged to a few older men, / Jupiter’s herd of moons. Look through its eyepiece,

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Inventing DangerI like to walk through the apartment / at night to be sure nothing / has moved, to be sure I still belong. I quiz myself

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7-Day GhazalOn the first day, we are all just hydrogen and time. Filling these hands— / this one mirror angle, one small wrist. One afternoon’s picked-over bones. / The second day, I spun ten times. On the grass, sky turning

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TonguesThis all becomes intriguing, as these things are. / Listening to couples speak in different languages— / which consonants are abundant, which sounds

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What can be explained is notIf I leave for Africa and take the bus / to the edge, if I step on an animal mine / and write inside the bellies of snakes—

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