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Feb 12, 20231 min read
Cassiopeia
On our anniversary, we spend the evening gazing at the stars yet not as lovers do, making wishes on ones that fall, but imagining instead...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
The West Coast of Somewhere
As a boy, I saw only sand and sea and stones I pitched with a splash beneath the shifting animal clouds that I envisioned. As a single...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
Upon Our Awakening
Upon our awakening, you ask why men want sex first thing in the morning. It was merely a kiss on your arm. You read a tad too much into...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
Hildegaard’s Tomb
I offered to go with you, to the mausoleum, thinking you'd said "museum," believing we'd gaze at vases and cracking busts made by the...
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Feb 11, 20231 min read
Lionel
lays down tracks like he did when he was a kid, predating The Neighborhood of Make Believe— he was already in college by then, getting...
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Feb 11, 20231 min read
Haight-Ashbury
The temperature in our apartment is always moderate, 20 Celsius, or as our friends in San Francisco call it, 68, never too frigid,...
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Feb 11, 20231 min read
Coda III
That page at the end of my notebook, the one that is blank, is the best poem of mine you’ve ever read, you say to me as I choose which to...
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Feb 10, 20231 min read
Maybe
When you turned to me and raised your brow, I too made a face. He sauntered past: grey, dishevelled, second-hand clothes still rank with...
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Feb 10, 20231 min read
Watchful
—for a sculpture by Walter Allward In the hours after dusk, we deduce he plots the path of distant suns, waits unabatedly for Antares to...
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Feb 10, 20231 min read
A Place Beneath the Water
We drive to the beach the day you’re released from the hospital, the pills afloat in your glass currently a memory taken by tides; and...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Strings of the Great Depression
In your chair, covered in a shawl to warm you, hot milk by your side, arthritic, gnarled fingers pulling limply on elastics (ones that...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Initials
After you left, I carved our initials into the stump of a fallen tree. I tallied its age before death, thought of its stunted remnant as...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Minus 21 and falling
It is colder than before, the other night I complained of chills, and frost embossed on windowpanes; that which they call cancer eating...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
La Belle
La pomme de terre, the potato, the earth apple, its womb a warmth of ground, unable to tempt the eyes of unfallen man. The apple, la...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
Preservation
You’ve stopped coming over of late, sensing I’ve crossed some sort of line, saying you want to preserve our friendship, this affection of...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
Winter Solstice
Christmas with an ex-lover is spent whenever there’s time to spare, so today I invited you over, with the promise of friendship and...
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Feb 7, 20231 min read
My lover hates Roy Clark but hasn't heard of Sufjan Stevens
My composition of song, for you, has been rejected, not because the sentiments were bad, or the structure of verse and chorus, but that I...
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Feb 7, 20231 min read
Miracle
Tonight I will ask you to marry me. You will surely say I am mad, in the British sense of the word, and then laugh off my promise to love...
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Feb 7, 20231 min read
Francesca, Weeding the Garden
My daughter, all of six and bursting with a Big Bang sort of energy, zigzags across our fenced backyard, picking dandelions she holds in...
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Feb 6, 20231 min read
This is the Reason
I've never written you a love letter, as I did for the girls I crushed on in school, vowing a childish forever love. I've been told that...
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