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Happy Holidays and New Year!

Why I Do Not Want a Christmas Tree

Kiss Me, Santa

After Winter Solstice

Night Snow

Yanked

Duplex: Ebb & Flow

The Years

A Visit with My Bedridden Father

Ode with Kevlar Vest and .30-06

Outside a Bistro in Marseille, 1968

Matinee

Contemplating Munch’s Angst Woodcut as Another War Breaks Out

Last Present

Fuoco

A Child Played in the Branches of a Thundercloud Plum Tree

The Door

Deepening the Drift

Short Pour

Ethel's Ring

Self-Portrait as Anne Sexton’s Typewriter

Breakup as Revision

How to Make Wontons

Echoes

"Escort" is her word &

Family Story VI

GIVE MIAMI DAY: THANK YOU!

We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing: Stanza I of a Heroic Crown for Madame Mayor Daniella Levine Cava

Homing

The Autograph Tree

Hydro Tank

HELP THE SWWIM TEAM RAISE WOMEN'S VOICES ON GIVE MIAMI DAY!

arrhythmia

Self-Portrait as Diana Rigg One-Liner

JOIN THE SWWIM TEAM ON GIVE MIAMI DAY...

The Velvet Room

The Cuckoo

SWWIM WITH US ON GIVE MIAMI DAY...

from "Vexations"

Copse, Corpus, Clearing

SUPPORT WOMEN WRITERS ON GIVE MIAMI DAY!

The Picture Tin

Wounded Beast

from "The Ferguson Report: An Erasure"

What's Changed

from "Still Life with Christ, Aromatics"

On a Marriage: A Fasting

Epithalamium Ending in Divorce

A Family Thing

Fable

Their Hearts Weigh Fifty Pounds

Sweetheart

Senses crossed

Sun Ghazal with Burnt Out Shers

Some Magic

I Think About My Mother's Skeleton

Ghost Ghazal

All the Flowers Are for Me

Elegy for an Uncle

Whanaungatanga

Unclaimed Baggage Center: The Nation's Only Retailer of Lost Luggage

Midlife Abecedarian

Cans &

Roadkill

In Perpetuity, I Shall Remain the Question My Parents Guess Wrong on Jeopardy!

Getting a Shine at Bradley International Airport

Sons, I love you in a basket

Hunger

The Keeper

The Lesson

Garter Snake

Tashlich/I Pretend Atone

The middle

An Artists’ Model Reflects on Eros

October Is Burning

Confession

What the Living Know: For Jaimie

Maroon

Fine Particles

Three Poems Written in Pencil on Hotel Memo Paper

Anniversary Celebration: An Attempt in 2021

Light in the bruise of the night

Counting Blackbirds

Negative Capabilities

Sweet Nothings

Letter to a Teen

Bone Song

Someday I’ll Love January O’Neil

Lines

Communion of Dust

Wormholes

While You Were Gone

Coyote Run

Incantation

Ode To Error

Attachment Theory

My Heart Is a Food Desert

SWWIM Bubbles Up

Happy Summer!

Moon, real and reflected

Meditation

Clutch

L’Oeuf Chaud Froid

Scar

Stellar Contronym

My Baby Plays with Noah’s Ark

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Vs.

Golden Shovel in the Voice of Margot Begemann

a day in my life with Pablo Neruda: a cento

Peace Sign

Dead Bird’s Skull

My Mother as Cleopatra

Pantoum with Virginia Woolf's Diary

Second Thing

The Compulsive Ruminates in Spring Snow

Vestiges

Spangled

Middle School Passage

Wire Walker

To the Girl Posing for Senior Pictures in Front of Used but Nice Office Furniture

Among the Fallen

Rachel Contemplates Slow Motion

Adirondack Upland Flora

Laundry

Back at the Airbnb

Don'ts for Girls

Undo

this country will require you to be magical then attempt to burn you for being a witch

Womb Song

Abecedarian for the Walking Woman

untitled (i imagine)

the convert discovers joy

My Name

Reflections on Sex Lessons

Gifting My Mother Tabu Dusting Powder

Smolder

Consider

Magnetic resonance imaging, Kirkland, 2012//Migraine, St. Paul, 2018

Not Every Body Is This Hard to Carry

Last Bite

Marriage Story with Travel and Contranyms

Eveningside

The Whale

Queen of the Night

Controlled Burn

Multiverse

Surgical Theatre

Ambition

I Laugh and Laugh

Patient on Ward 6

Crime of the Century

A Fruit Can Be a Metonym for a Home Country

Destierro Means Exile

Abandon, Reprised

Slivers

Elegy With A Dream Of A River II

Second Grade Shame

Chicago Poem

At the Women's Health Center

My Halfway House

The Scientist and Her Husband Observed the Consciousness of Gnats in Spoleto, Italy

Flood

Antisocial Media

Week 27: Cauliflower

Prayer for Rooms We're Forbidden to Enter

Corpse: of the body, of the core

The Center

Self-Portrait as Rizzo in the School Yard

Contrition: Birds-of-Paradise

Red Things

If You Wondered About the Astronaut Who Never Went to Space

Fishing, Lake Chautauqua

Storyteller

All Your Life You’ve Carried Around Your Own Hit Package

Light Feast on the Olentangy

Will There Be Chickens in Paradise?

Summoned

Best Trees for Property Borders

I Have Lost My Fear

I Wake up to the News

Gizzards

Gender Reveal

Blessing

Post Apocalypse Heart

The Day Olivia Newton John Dies, My Partner Asks Why I Haven’t Wanted Sex Lately

Landscape: Heart and Cows

Lazarus

Remember: A Concerto Turned Anthem

Shapeshifting in Topanga Canyon

Storm

Independence Day 2022, Lost Lake

Thoughts from the Drowning Girl

Flipbook of Sky in Love

A Woman with No Reason

For Whom Do You Bathe and Make Yourself Beautiful?

The Nymph and the Scorpion

At the Wedding Shower of My Future Daughter-In-Law

Drowning

Peppermint Thief

Sparrow Bones

In Sycamore Park

Storm at Montara Beach

My Dharma

Land Lessons

Where Are You Going, My Little One?

Snag

Bodega Bay

Gertrude on artum nuptias

The Astronaut’s Mother

I Am My Grandmother’s Last Surviving Servant

Honey

An-Naml 27:88

Twitch

Lost Pantoum

Battle Cake

Farthest Star

This Is How Tortillas Are Made

Ordinary Psalm with Alternative Facts

Dorothy, in the Dementia Ward

trauma bond

Life Before

Where I Come From, People Bathe Babies in the Kitchen Sink

Imaginary Elegy

A Sonnet to Mad Men with Apologies to the Woman Poet (Who Requires No Definition)