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Birds of Ohio that hover at night tear the moon apart with haunted claws. Strips of white light from cratered surface hang over bare, winter-tree limbs like strips of ermine. By looking into the sky, I seek the infinite signal...

Scarlet flute a spy as red as ruby floods the room like gunshot it’s a bloody mess. We’ve become expert liars scholars of deceit; convinced you to stay it was never right after that, sort of like seeing the sunlight from a crack...

Counting quarters      at the laundry mat on Park Avenue           foam circling                spinning machines stare back                     5 four-cycle Speed Queens                          rinsing the stains              ...

Holding Rembrandt’s eyes his hands distilling water The great seam of human interference is to reproduce nature Christmas tree studded with twilight the hive of soaring angels to be heard Christ in the foil star shaking tapestry...

Not fretting about someone armed with a shotgun taking direct aim at free speech; not pondering the imminent demise of democracy—no, just admiring a big bird of prey on the electric wires overhead, and not any old raptor, but...

The distinctive knocking gave away the woodpecker, but it took several minutes to locate its position high up in the tree. The pileated kind, from the Latin pileatus meaning wearing a cap, in this case red like a cardinal’s in...

—for my granddaughter, Kennedy It has since become known as “The Miracle on Ice,” the U.S. hockey team at Lake Placid in the 1980 Winter Olympics beating the Soviet Union, four-time defending gold medal champions, 4-3 in a...