Three Answers to Her Question, What Was That?

1. The flutelike fingers of Paris pickpockets 2. Only the wind thinking to itself 3. The sun up before dawn cleaning the shotgun

A Brief History of American Literature

Poe raked lizards from trees in the yard at night. Melville slept with common seamen. Black cars hurried past. Burroughs wouldn’t remove his hat. Everyone drank to excess, the Lindbergh baby stashed in the house next door.

For A Slave to Junk Food

WHAT!

Far From Trashmen

English Manners

Eunuch

The Suffocated Terrace

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A poem for b.