The Visit
When I knelt to face him, he said my name— not the one he and my mother had given me, […]
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Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015
Thank you, instant mashed potatoes, your bland taste makes me feel like an average American. Thank you, incarcerated Americans,
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This Living Hand
Tom Mannarino defends his MFA thesis brilliantly, but when I stick my head in his office door to say so,
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Superposition of States
He called it a thought experiment, a hypothetical scenario They call it a threatened miscarriage, a state of uncertainty. constructed
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Upon Receiving My Inheritance
I said Thank You father for giving me this disease that will one day bind my bones together at each
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The Sharpened Shears He Plied
The sharpened shears he plied hang useless on the wall, now that he’s gone away, almost as if they sense—