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The Dog Misses You
The dog goes out to look for you. She circumnavigates the / yard. She has been practicing saying, I love you, in every / language.
May 2016Cause Of Death: Fox News
Toward the end he sat on the back porch, / sweeping his binoculars back and forth / over the dry scrub-brush and arroyos, / certain he saw Mexicans
May 2016The Empty Chair
Waiting for the poetry reading / to get started, I turn around / to apologize to the man / sitting diagonally behind me / for blocking his view.
May 2016Beauty: 1976
Those winding roads where we stuck out / our thumbs to any cars that came.
April 2016Intrigue In The Trees
Often I wonder: / Is the earth trying to get / rid of us, shake us off, / drown us, scorch us / to nothingness?
April 2016Birthday
The last movie we saw with you has been nominated for an award — / you’re not here to say I told you so.
March 2016The Same Movies
He never listens to my dreams. “Dreams / aren’t real,” he says dismissively. And he’d prefer it / if I filled out a rebate for a toothbrush instead of starting another / poem.
February 2016Ode To A Summer Evening In France
We ate snails from their shells, dipped bread in the sauce. / The man we were visiting poured more wine, / said he hoped we’d stay a long time.
February 2016Ode To Scotch And A Pretzel While Watching Movies With My Dog
Tonight it seems a flowering branch of the tree / of pleasure to sit on my green couch with a tumbler / of scotch and a salted pretzel while people / pretending to be other people wheel / through the toothy gears of their lives.
January 2016Selected Poems
— from “For This” | It is for this / we have been torn / and mended / and torn again.
January 2016
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