A Visual Poem in the Shape of a Biblically Accurate Angel Wrapped Around the Mast of the Empire State Building
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Variation on a Theme by Some Hackette Who Calls Herself the Poet Laureate of Dimes Square
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Cornered at Corner Bar on Canal St, Forced to Listen to My Newest Nemesis’s String of Hot Takes He’s Taken from Various Podcasts and Group Chats and Substacks (a Cento)
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An Onomatopoeic Representation of the Sound I Made Tumbling down the Escalator at Grand Central Madison
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In Praise of the Scaffolding Suffocating Every Other Sidewalk Not Unlike the Kudzu That Used to Cover the Small Town Where We Grew Up
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Transcript of a Voicemail I Left for You in the Middle of an Espresso Martini-Fueled Frenzy of Homesickness
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Pittsboro, 2013: Fragment of a Pastoral Written Ten Years Before All That Open Farmland Was Sold to Disney
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A Belated Elegy for James Joyce, Whose Ulysses You and I Took Turns Reading Aloud to Each Other, Each Word Reanimated by Our Southern Twangs
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The Night We Found the Government’s Secret Underground Bunker While Getting Wasted in the Woods [Rewritten as a Blackout Poem]
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Ode to Your Flaming Red Hair That Almost Always Bore the Fragrance of Pot Smoke
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The First Draft of a Beautiful, Heartbreaking Sonnet Touching on the Last Time You Touched Me
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An Acrostic Poem That Spells Out “M-E-E-T-M-E-I-N-D-U-B-L-I-N”
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Transcript of a Voicemail I Left for You in the Middle of an Espresso Martini-Fueled Frenzy of Homesickness Part 2
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An Ekphrastic Poem About The Portal, Out of Which the Lower Half of My Body Now Hangs Like a Dead Squirrel on an Electric Fence
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Acknowledgments
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