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Essay Against Metaphor
Ode to the Stroller We Bought from Facebook
Relic
Like Riding a Bike
Xylophone
don’t bring your 6-year-old daughter to a wild horse action, just bring a horse home
Poem with Mississippi Honeybees
Windowless Place
Manuscript Epigraphs
The Felling
The Junebugs
The Tuba
Cross-Quarter Days
The Zoologist’s Daughter
Children’s Books
Cruelty
Breathing Technique
Phantasmagoria
Of Gut & Gold
The Hunted
Philomath
Grammar for Seraphs
Signals
Cougar Flat
Peaches
Self-Portrait as Yard Boy
Photographer
Elegy with Teeth
Coast
The Story as Window
August of &8217;80
3Rs: A Sentimental Journey
Rocking Chair
The Blood
My Friend Tells Me I’ve Got to Stop Letting My Enemies Live Rent Free in My Head
Experimental Perfume Class in Which I ‘Scent’ the Folkloric Witch Baba Yaga
My Grandparents’ Velvet Painting of ‘The Last Supper’
Inconclusive
In a Land Where Everything Is Trying to Kill You, I Teach You to be an Autotomist
Missing Glossary
Imperium: A Bedtime Story
Breakable Jesus
Courtesy and Horror
Damned If
Preschool
Ghost Pastoral
Movies You Must See Before You Die
Traveling Light: From Photography to Poetry
After
A Good Girl
Delaware & Raritan. 1850.
Goshen, Virginia
Mariana
Seedlings
Looking for God (its big machine)
The Children (Part II)
Looking for Virginia Dare
The Kite
Makeup
At Ten
A Small Talk
Från Vintern 1947
From Winter 1947
My Brother the Artist, at Seven
from Scholarship Boy, “Where Are You From?” by Larry I. Palmer
The Lie
The Apple
Canción de Cuna
Hitchhiking at Nineteen
First Loss
Peripheries
Mid-February at Navy Pier
[box of light with Keats in it] [& an iPhone] [& a boy]
On Lockdown
For Colored Kids Building Up Their Bones
Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium
What If
Nonna Tears Apart a Chicken
Deciduous Ode
These Are the Insects
Single Shot
A Letter to the Sacred Ibis
A Teacher’s Story
Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky
Limits of the Burning World
My Daughter Gets Her Wisdom Teeth Extracted
While hunting mummies at the British Museum
Maybe It Was Summer
School Bus Brocade
Letters to Genevieve
Becoming Dorothy
Wading into the Stream
Fifteen
Reincarnation at the Wallingford Animal Shelter
What I Am Looking for Is What Is Looking
End of the Marriage
Elegy
All day, one room: me, and the cherubim . . .
When does a childhood end? Mothers . . .
Winging It
Boardwalk '62
Sixty-Five
The Changing Table
Ordinary Pleasure
Annunciation
Birds
Rat
Here, Beauties
The Summer Birthdays
Strange Fire
Measure
Sing
Sara Turing’s Archive
Annunciation
The Barn
Baba Yaga Invites Fort Worth Girl Scout Troop #23 for a Campout
Childhood, Princesshood, Motherhood
Cant
The Little GirlBoy Lost
Rec Center
Forest
Letter 14
The Language of the Heart
Sally’s Daughter, a Young Poet, Explores the Idea of Dad
Bramble Lane
Is there any proof that unicorns exist?
Last. Child. Last. Child.
Safety Scissors
Review | A Series of Small Maneuvers, by Eliot Treichel
El almacén
The Corner Grocery
La biblioteca
The Library
Annunciation, 1960
Trakl at Sandy Hook
Marionette
Haircut
[She is back, the one-eyed cat, trapped]
[In a week they are gone, did the mother]
Allegiance
Getting the Baby to Sleep
At the Arlee Pow-Wow with My Unborn Child
Vera Beneath the Floor
Confession
Sleeping in the Good Bed
Loxley
The Oldest Story
From Which the Method of Drawing in Space between the Trees Instead of the Trees Themselves Might Well Be Employed
Jean Valentine Was Here
The Raft
Schoolboy’s Blues
Fatti maschii parole femine
As a child I ate and mourned.
Sister
The First Necessary Heartbreak
Changeling
Syl Ponder
Swinging Lessons
from Dear Herculine
from Dear Herculine
Chutes and Ladders
Here
Frequently Asked Questions: 1
Frequently Asked Questions: 2
Thirteen
Bedroom (In the Ear)
Tattooed
Cross Country
Paul’s Daughter
The Study of Tragedy
World without End
The Dimensions of the Anomaly
Sheets of Galaxies
Cast Net
The School
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
Review | Reliquary, by Matthew Minicucci
Hourglass II
“Assembled Drawing” | The Prosthetics of Joy by George Ferrandi
Drawings, Prosthetics, Details, & Performers” | “The Prosthetics of Joy
The Prosthetics of Joy: Artist’s Introduction
“Performing The Prosthetics of Joy,” George Ferrandi
from This World We Know
Kelly Younger, This World We Know Introduction
The Lost Boys
Season
On the Difficulty of Pumping High-Octane Gasoline into a ’39 Buick Century without Spilling a Drop
Story Problem
Girl at Nine and Again at Thirteen
Russian Mysticism
Tall Enough
Forget That
Patience
Nursery Rhyme from Another Century
Piano Lessons II
Schoolhouse
a playground in daegu
The Pages
Art 180
Vampires of Queens
Some Dead Magic
Coin-Operated Rattle Without a Snake
Sphex
Centaur
A Christmas Story
Wynona’s Hiatus
RRX
The Magic Book: Why I Thought Publishing a Book Would Change Everything
The Other Hemisphere
To Failure
Two Girls Off Quarry Road
Resuscitation
Bird Call
Review | Mathilda Savitch, by Victor Lodato
Review | In the Time of the Girls, by Anne Germanacos
Driving the Peugeot
Hand
Expecting
from Mathilda Savitch
Like Being a Child, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Iron Curtain
In the Grand Theater
The Dressmaker’s Daughter
Brochure for Exile
Ephemera
The Delinquent Girls
The Drama Girls
The Geek Girls
The Quiet Girls
Disarmed
Diamonds in the Rough
Japanese Ghosts Don’t Have Feet
Allen Whicher's Love Tale
Som Att Vara Barn
Duck and Cover (1951) | Federal Civil Defense Administration
First Novelist Reading Loop, Blackbird
A Reading by Victor Lodato, Blackbird
Watershed
Better to Lose an Eye
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 8
The Lions
1989: Death on the Nile
Ochre ii
Ochre iv
Ochre xii
Ochre xx
Ochre xxii
A Distance
A Steady Surprise of Stars
Galactica
Everything Before “Happy” Is True
6 Standish Court
Scale Practice
The Name of Birds, Sara Quinn Rivara
Willingly
Practice
Oskar's Cars
Review of Miscreants by James Hoch
Selections from Otherwhere
I Am My Rooster
Moth, Horse, Accident, Skin
Dreamy Willie and the Trinity of Cows
Dear P. XXI
Dear P. XXIII
Transitions for Dancers When Dance Is No Longer an Option
The Upstairs Notebook
Review of Mission Work by Aaron Baker
Tchaikovsky at the Trinity Site: A Dance of Sorts in Three Acts
Mistress (1)
Mistress (2): Teeter-Totter
Mr. Brown Takes His Students to the Museum
Post-Op
Flashes
Children
A cradle of warmed oats for the chickens on the Epiphany
Clear and dark gills of mushrooms
Review of Eden in the Rearview Mirror by Susan Elbe
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 3
The Lions
Hush
Esto Absoluta
Headmaster
Practice Rooms
Synchronized Swimming
The Well: Egg and Tongue
Mercury
Slipknot: Starlight
Audio: Oral
The Boy Who Walked to Distant Lands
Pima Road Notebook (I)
Pima Road Notebook (II)
Morning After the Prom
Heaven
Southbound
Tyros’ World Tour
The Speaking Book
The Queen of Hearts
Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor, Ron Smith
Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor, Ron Smith
Fine Stationery
Caitlin Horrocks, It Looks Like This
Obadiah Chapters
The Tar Road
Some Girl
Some Girl
Studies from Life
With a Leaf in Her Fist
Prayer For Mrs. Snead
An Uncertain Sky Makes Her Wary of Stillness
Traumerei
Laura Lark | Artist Statement
News from Home
She Falls Asleep in Strange Places
This Is Not an Elegy
Reading to Children
Good Samaritan Points
Juliet and Air
Juliet and Dark
Juliet and Fire
Juliet and Heaven
Night Crabbing
The Carriage Road
Red Elegy
National Poetry Month
Selektion: The Painted Girl
Two Lives
Violet, from The Night Edith Didn't Die
Kiss
The Countdown
What You Meant Was
The Cicadas
Review | Ursula, Under, by Ingrid Hill
Brothers
My Brother in the Basement
The Feeder, 10
Vigil
Review | The Room Where I Was Born, by Brian Teare
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Blackbird Feature, Wendy Ewald, December 20, 2004
Visitation
Favors
The Family, One Week Old
Tearing Down the Old Water Tower
Dangerous Playgrounds
From White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation
The Neck's What Keeps Heart and Head Together
Buggy Ride from Salt
Unfinished Landscape with a Dog
Bocca
Fahrenheit Meditation
The Stigmata Rather than a Punch on the Nose
Conte Bleu (The Blue Fairy Book)
Springerle
Critical Care
To One Lingering in the Trees
Spring Burials, Margot Schilpp
Out to Buy Milk
The Saved
He Said Discipline is the Highest Form of Love
Crawdads on the Styx, R. T. Smith