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  The news hit like a dry wind rolling off the Panhandle—                a crack in the earth widening, another decree carved into the classroom walls where children once traced constellations                and asked why...

For Joe I think of you whenever rain soaks my world. We drink coffee, I lounge in pyjamas, you wander the stars. I remember you when children brown in the sun. I amble the beach to where you rest, we contemplate the ocean. I...

I walk the edge, bruised sky carries the remains of yesterday’s rain. An eagle skims the dawn-feathered water, talons bared for breakfast. An empty hand, the unused leash—aloneness strangles. Barely-there waves lap my cold toes....

Not for nothing we hunger Forever we fight Not sure why Despite theories About dominos And peace actions Those were skirmishes Not wars, not conflicts Just unrest and geste Not to name it Is not to own it So the pols press...

The surveying mistake…maybe it was the extra ration of rum, or a Lake Champlain-sized mosquito lighting on the theodolite…meant that they started out building it on the enemy’s side of things. An error not grasped for months. By...

He kept them close, in the climate-controlled vault of his heart. We saw him receive some portions of joy, and more of sorrows than he should bear. Yet always his words dawdled like messengers who turned illegible addresses over...

Lying there, in sun that’s honey-thick, I try untangling my fingers from your hair, trimmed into a soldier’s cut, some mythic lion mane. You know, you say, I used to wear a ponytail. You’d grow it back – in a heartbeat, if you...

Always ahead, Face grim, double-diapered,         oxygen tank buzzing, Somebody’s Grandpa, face stiffened,         one hand hanging limp, “Please call me Emma,” eyes ever dimmed,         tightly grasps a Kleenex box. chairs...

Blood, sinew, and bone Revolve through the pendulum arc Powering the carbon-light frame With hips locked Shoulders rounding Fingertips feathering the brake I laugh as the wind— Always faster— Pushes against me   Dan Bruno...

I have not seen you in twenty-five years, But the force of possibility, Of what we never became, Still catches me off guard. Even now, I think of your face, And my gut hollows. Natural laws govern this universe, And I believed...

I’ve never been to Dodge City, but I did dodge going into the service by getting a high lottery number way back when. And looking back, I was very fortunate in one respect as I’ve always had an aversion to authority, often...