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The Master of Furies portrayed him as hapless victim
of a faithless and unregulated media
martyred by arrows of outrageous chatter

Are we so removed from 1945,
from the shattering, unalterable echo,
we need to be reminded
in parentheses?

A foundational sport for opposing countries that show
teamwork on a global court with an ocean
preempting the typical polyester net.

Before a hope arrives
open-eyed and childlike,
he is turned away
with a backward glance
at a lost country.

Research confirms that sleepers can perform
a sequence of complex behaviors and tasks

I call it my cathedral of conscience.
Mostly it’s a tower of silence
and stillness and listening.
It demands nothing

“Digging in the Italian village of Valdaro–near the city of Mantua, a setting for the famous Elizabethan tragedy–they uncovered a startling double burial. Dubbed the “Lovers of Valdaro” by the media, the pair were huddled close together, face to face, their arms and legs entwined, seemingly in an eternal embrace.”

Each day Grandma holds a ceremony
more verbs than nouns—

Outlined in fine, black ink
where white identifies with empty,
I am the artichoke in the garden
asking to be transformed
as light through a crystal prism

I weep for vividness
of childhood memories
when my life was beginning

maps…were blamed for the amputations,
for the soiled knees of widowhood, …
It was the line drawn through Delmarva
between one narcissist and another.