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descend onto vegetable seeds buried in backyard garden loam. Dry and alone, I wait indoors seated in my painted blue kitchen, listen for more raindrop music to repeat pit-pat-pit-pat, orchestrated in the great above, where one...

Their original purpose— to drape loose cloth close to the body, accentuate a torso, or hug a bodice. Pearl fasteners heightened women’s breasts. Gold buttons flaunted men’s muscular arms. In medieval times, buttons were the...

(After Mark Strand’s Elegy for My Father 2 – Answers) What did you expect to see there? I expected nothing. The realm of a fish is so silent. What did you expect to see there? A brook trout with her young, its brown skin...

The less broken ones crawl to the roadside and die. In the night under inky clouds, bright spears of headlights point them out. Unlike the ones whose forms are smeared or stamped on dashed center lines, they are still whole— fur...

An online article revealed how a lineage of birds survived an asteroid 66 million years ago, when many went extinct with the ponderous dinosaurs. They choked on volcanic dust, dragged their limp tails along the Cretaceous plain,...

The thoughts I said The words I meant The feelings came and then they went They didn’t last as what things will The past is past until the present’s still

If I could I swear I would Wipe the tears from my eyes Part the clouds in the sky Clear the cobwebs from my brain Bring the sun to run the rain To wake only one morning not feeling ill To right this ship just through will To...

(a Chueh-chu poem) Wandering about in the lush woods These are some of the best neighborhoods There’s nowhere else I would rather be Surrounded by epic social goods Feeling so young and fully alive Sort of like going back...

one foot front of the other sun swallows hot shadows moon rises cold fantasies old white skulls reflect alpha oasis omega mirage