How easy it was, once, to imagine our future children. The blueprints were right in front of us, waiting to be brought to life. We envisioned them, tiny replicas of ourselves, as all couples surely do when they are “trying.”

in a place where one grass blade makes / the next grass blade’s shade / that grass blade made / the next grass blade’s root

On the ice floe they pretended they were on a white sand beach / The trail guide had really screwed up / Earlier he had pinched a thistle and paid the consequences

The more I looked at her the more she seemed angry. This was probably because I was breaking into John’s computer again.

To be diagnosed with a rare disease is to have wildness pressed upon you. You are not exactly the secretive quarry that birders travel the world to add…

Your husband watches like a phantom through the window, his face silvered in smoke. His eyes, once brimming with affection, have slanted into whispers. You want his puckered face to catch a clod of dirt.

Not fossil not decay unfurls / A shining ladder and makes / Rescue all. In movies / Lets loose, tears off

this once-heretical root, domesticated / for latkes. My calendar's terribly reduced.

"I am pouring my language into new containers again and again, and I make sure each container has a different line length. As I pour my language into these…

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