The Minstrel Cycle
is a group bike ride involving guys in tight pants and floppy hats with feathers, I tell my daughter. They […]
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The One and the Other
The child hums as he carries, too late, / his grandmother’s sugar-dusted lemon-glazed cake …
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Remember It Wrong
Everyone’s memory is subjective. If in three weeks we were both interviewed about what went on here tonight, we would
Whale Bone
In this field of fireweed and wild oat
that leans for ten thousand mornings to the east,
I see the wind coming
from miles and miles away
like wakes at the back of an unseen boat.
Beginner’s Lesson
If you wish to be wealthy, duck beneath
the topcoat of a well-dressed river
until you come up with a mossy boot
filled with shiners. Spend them wisely.
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Cathedrals: Ode to a Deported Uncle
Tío, you learn there’s always a border—I imagine a poor family in Jocotepec takes you in. You work as a