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You had some extra you said. You didn’t expect as much, to last, and then there was her. She was more than you hoped to want. Never saw a man feeling luckier. Something old- timey about you guys: Em breaking bread with deans and bards and you baking gold- en loaves of words like cherish. […]

Each spring, I visit the mill where ghosts are made. I first survey the grounds, not to inspect or investigate, but to frame what I claim to know about existence. As I make my way through the main room, an electroplated manor of cool machinery, I make sure to learn what I can about humanity […]

Inge my mother started smoking when she was eleven Inge my aunt died from lung cancer Inge how can I pass through the netherworld? Inge I still like the smell of good tobacco Inge we cannot escape history I will put out your cigarette Inge Do I collect too many private objects? My grandfather swore […]

The houseguest was not a houseguest, I mistakenly invited him as my distraction, as my soiled laundry, as my manhole with steam unquaintly rising. The houseguest lived largely inside my telephone, my cellular phone, the number belonging solely to me, intruding through my smallest, most forgettable spaces. I met him at the playground, a married […]

This time he, the sleeping figure, I, the lion, my pupils round in their egg-whites, night-wind angling his scent dunewards. He has surprised me. I never expected a human in the sand like a god fallen asleep, a bare-throated mandolin on the pillow beside him. I smell the striped shoulder of his robe. Don’t know […]

All Mars can see, bolted in place, is the sky. She recites red sky at night, sailor’s delight until her atmosphere shimmers. She wants to be visible from everywhere, the brightest storm brewing in this big wide sea. She converts sensations into units of distance and units of force, so that each time a body […]