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Old Women Dream They Are Flamingos
Stones in the Absence of Motherhood
When I think about us, I think about southern summers
When wispy clouds drift through sparsely wooded mountains
Where Can You Even Buy a Lachrymatory
After Waking with Asthma, I Sit on the Porch
This Will Be Your Fortune Long After I Can Tell You
A Button on Summer With a Raggedy Labrador
I Cook Thanksgiving Dinner with My Dead Mother
From Fields of Blossom and Bone
Give the Lake a Moment to Speak About the Horses
If You Want to Fall in Love Again
In Two Weeks! SWWIM Lesson #2!
My nearly 90-year-old mother road trips to Montana
Praise the ones who loved us best they could
The Clocks in All the Novels Have Paused
While on the Phone, I Look Out
Ghazal for a Bottle of Shalimar, 1956
*Tuesday*-SWWIM Lessons: From Prompt to Placement
Dream Where I Disobey the Meteorologist’s Appeal to Stay Indoors
*Starts Next Week*-SWWIM Lessons: From Prompt to Placement
Looking at a photograph of a person looking out a window at Mt. St. Helens years after eruption
From Where We Thought of Other Places
*NEW* Workshop Series--SWWIM Lessons: From Prompt to Placement
He Asks How I Know I Want to be a Mother
Portrait of Californian as Late-Discovery Adoptee
Ordering a Tart in the Geisha District
My Body Doesn't Have a Clearly-Marked Exit
Self-Portrait as C-Section, as Grand Piano
On losing Aunt Temma & (her mother) Grandma “Weeza” in the same week
Whenever Anyone Tells Me I’m a Good Mother, I Want to Say
I Come from a Long Line of Literary Sapphics
After Calling My Child’s Principal to Report the Boy Researching Guns on His Computer
Believe Your Hands When They Bleed
Studying Vincent on The Last Day of May
Forget About Wifey, Says the DJ
At the AIDS Walk in My Pre-Gay Twenties
Still Life: Moth on Windshield
Neither object nor space nor line nor anything*
[untitled] or tending to the beautiful in a broken world
Augie had a good day. He enjoyed some fresh air in the stroller with his friend, Ida.
Self-Erasure: The Head of Antoinette
People Who Are Afraid to Fly in Airplanes Love Harder
Did You Know the Vatican Is Made of Particle Board
Spectrogram of a human meadowlark
Self-Portrait as so Much Starting Over
Hearing The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet’s “All The Things You Are” In The Foodtown
Self-Portrait Poem That Is Also a Study
Hillary Clinton and Banksy Meet Me for Lunch at Vivi’s House of Vegan, NYC
After Pawning the Engagement Ring
Poem for My (Non-Existent) Adult Child
How We Sleep at Gramma's House
Two egrets at the edge of a tidal marsh
I have my grandmother's veins,
On our 17th wedding anniversary, we consider divorce
A Poem for “Desert Mother,” A Quilt by Kathy Nida