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The hawk, blatant and in-your-face, all hot shot soaring and swooping, angling against an optimum backdrop for accentuating his best features, doing the whole hah, hah, hah, my wingspan is bigger than yours thing,...

If a man gets a dog
in his head–say a stray hound,
a cerebral bitch–should he throw
her a bone? Should he invite her in?

Wasn’t it just their version
of crucifixes in urine, we understood the necessity
for artistic impulse, and, yes, we believed in nature too,
that it should be allowed its freedom,

This morning
the leaves of the oak
glitter like wind
on a watery dawn

Like the chicken ruffling in her dust bath I have moments when I revel in my old age and decrepitude, when someone helps me put on my overcoat, when I relish the sheen on my Malacca cane, when no one mistakes my politeness for...

like Auden telling his prep school boys
to write an essay with a lie in every sentence,
I tell you this: