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The Ant
Keep poetry simple, like a single ant atop a blueberry, catching the light without shining.
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In Times Like These
In times like these I clean the gutters monthly and the lint trap every day;
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Bravery
This is a time for bravery. Not the human-cannonball kind. Not the free-diver nor the free-soloist.
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At the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
At the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater the Milky Way is rewound, fast-forwarded, collided with nearby galaxies, as though nearby made any sense in this unreal landscape, both alien and, in moments of insight,
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How to Write a Poem
Stare out a window, any window, until your eyeballs loosen and you spoon them out of your skull like two warm eggs. Be sure to keep at least one nerve and one blood vessel attached to the bowl of pudding that rests on your spine.
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Pre-Flight Checklist
Keys, wallet, phone. The Collected Works of Federico García Lorca. Moleskin journal and ballpoint pen. Mahogany chess board, Rubik's Cub,...
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October 1, 2025
I am awakened too early. I cannot be awake. The growl of my neighbor’s leaf-blower is what prehistoric man, cowering in his cave, cowered from. How do you forgive your neighbor?
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Nostalgia
Remember when bumper stickers read Free Tibet or End Apartheid, and we agreed? Remember when there was just one war on TV, like a movie whose plot you knew by heart?
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Apology
For the promises I never made, or kept; for the friends I wronged, or let down, or lost touch with; for doors I failed to hold open, grandmothers who bore their groceries unaided,...
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Silence
Last night I caught a dole of doves robbing me of sleep with their yapping. They accused me of such terrible things—an oppressor of birds...
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Lottery
For once, I throw my lot in with the rest. At the bleak store that sells tobacco and liquor, two bucks buys me this slip that feels sinful and foolish in my hands...
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Through Time
Your flight delayed, you scroll your photos app. There is the dog you just adopted, eyes alert and energetic. There is your son roughhousing with him on the carpet, wild with joy...