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My father once told me that to see in the dark
I had to look away

Before tractors, Ayman plowed fields with his team and made
lewd advances on his daughter-in-law, my grandmother Louise.

Our dog bit Margie Buskirk, our dearest
and oldest friend

There are so many gates:
thatched brown gates that open to rice fields,
white wooden gates to keep in the dogs,
wrought-iron black gates to castles,
gates that open like mouths
gates that slam shut and lock,
gate of heaven to shut me out.

on Easter morning, I wonder
what I’m doing in New Zealand
instead of being home in Seattle
with my son.

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