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Someone has risen hurriedly, late for Geometry, or an assignation     we really have to talk         left the chair angled away            from the comfortable line of the table,         left a gap as broad as the need     to...

— for N.G. No need for such manufactured unease while the world, wound down, wearied, breeds its own fears – dogs loosed howling in the soulless dark, blue dreams, sounds ‘round a wind-worried lake crazing. I see...

  The news hit like a dry wind rolling off the Panhandle—                a crack in the earth widening, another decree carved into the classroom walls where children once traced constellations                and asked why...

For Joe I think of you whenever rain soaks my world. We drink coffee, I lounge in pyjamas, you wander the stars. I remember you when children brown in the sun. I amble the beach to where you rest, we contemplate the ocean. I...

I walk the edge, bruised sky carries the remains of yesterday’s rain. An eagle skims the dawn-feathered water, talons bared for breakfast. An empty hand, the unused leash—aloneness strangles. Barely-there waves lap my cold toes....

Not for nothing we hunger Forever we fight Not sure why Despite theories About dominos And peace actions Those were skirmishes Not wars, not conflicts Just unrest and geste Not to name it Is not to own it So the pols press...

The surveying mistake…maybe it was the extra ration of rum, or a Lake Champlain-sized mosquito lighting on the theodolite…meant that they started out building it on the enemy’s side of things. An error not grasped for months. By...

He kept them close, in the climate-controlled vault of his heart. We saw him receive some portions of joy, and more of sorrows than he should bear. Yet always his words dawdled like messengers who turned illegible addresses over...