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Happy Holidays!

Forced Air

Good Enough

The Icebergs

weightless

Where We SWWIM: Dispatches from the Editors

Faith

Ars Poetica: Contact Beauty

Turning the corner

While Driving Your Daughter

Sigiriya Rock Temple

Blue Asphalt

Sacred Vows

Relegated

Self-Portrait in a Winter Landscape

Winter of Our Marriage

Migration Patterns

American Guzzling Cento

To the Ukulele Player on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida Who Asks Passersby, What Are You Grateful For?

perhaps

Two Daughters

Plaintiff's Lawyer Explains Gravity to the Men of the Jury Hearing a Sacrocolpoperineopexy Malpractice Case

Search Engine Results

Anorexia Mirabilis

A Duplex for the Day After Retirement

Want. My MTV.

Early May, St. Peter, Minnesota

Cold Thief Place

Black Hole

November 4th

Anthem of Tenderness

Nice Guys Finish Last

Ode to My Burning

No Explosions

Spacewalk

The Men

Grounding Exercise

Streetcorner Coda

Giant

Broken Songs That Remain 1 and 2

Cher Said Some Women Are Just Born With It

Starting Over

Landscape with Convalescence

Be Careful What You Fall in Love With

She Who

In which I lurk

Well

Flesh, Once Given

Living Notes

Where We SWWIM: Dispatches from the Editors

boys:

Working the Porn Circuit

Sacred Treasures

Ars Poetica as Macramé

cowboy [[hot]] :: horse-girl [[derogatory]]

Paternity

Boxed, but Not Labeled

TOMORROW! SWWIM Lessons: The “Bruja” Series #1

wind against my face, i opened my eyes to see

SWWIM Lessons: The “Bruja” Series #1

To Mark the Contradictions of a Daily Love

A Pause to Bless the Grasses

I Tell My Mother I Want Another Name

The Wisdom of the Cave

*Starts Next Week*: The Bruja Series

You can tell yourself anything

Potlikker

Manifesto

What I Found Out in the ER

Another Kind of Light

Our Mother is a Bird

F 34.1, or poet self-edits

Magic Carpet

Where We SWWIM: Dispatches from the Editors

Muse

Pantoum for the Free Climber's Girlfriend

Change

Pitri Paksha (পিতৃপক্ষ)

The Ancestors Invited Me to a Family Convention

South South

Night Sequins

Ghazal for an Amputation

La Douleur Exquise

The Archaeologist

Hand Apologia

serenade

Prayer

Have a Poetic Summer!

The Butcher's Son

Character Questionnaire for a Stranger (You) Who Enters a Poem

Transference of Air

Yellow List

Washing in the Cellar

Retrospective of a Woman

Inhibit

In a Past Life

Polka Dot Dress

Bare Arbor

Sunday Constitutional

On Seeing a Doe with Many Ticks Over Her Heart

Heat

Ode to Iron

Ode to Sugar

aurora borealis

Unflinching

One Whole Heartbreak

Self-Portrait as Moon Clichés

My Neighbor, This Heatwave, We Argue, He Waters the Grass

Sweeping

Letting Go

At the Animation Festival

Aries on the Rise

Still Eden

White Water

In This Version

Until a Calling Comes

On the Night Tom Holland Lip-Synched Rihanna’s “Umbrella” While Zendaya, LL Cool J, and Chrissy Tiegen Looked On

Boring Sorrow

Lunch Break at the Meditation Retreat

Secrets

Caught

Family Portrait as the Golden Mummies of Bahareya

Drawing Us Out

Incantation

What Was The Sensible Decision?

Poems I Probably Won’t Write About My Imprisoned Son

These Peonies

The first white lie

After my stepson’s mother tells me she is having another baby in January

Olivia Newton-John Riedell Roller Skates

Trailhead, Hong Kong

The Church Office in the Summertime

an aubade of collective nouns

Lessons

After IVF Treatment Day Five

When He Traveled, I Was to Water the Plants

So That He May Step into the Tender Light

Decatur Island

We Call It Hunger

The Heaviest Thing in My Body

Deaf joy

When the Irises Don't Come

In My Brother's Garden

Work

the early stirrings

Real Care

This Time of Night

Self-Portrait as Overpriced Purple Vase from Bay View Street in Camden, Maine

I Want to Hold Tender

Snowglobe

Cleavage

After the Greeks Tippy-toed out of a Horse

Backyard Fable

My Adaptive Adolescent Wants My Wise Adult to Know There’s Nothing Like Roe v. Wade Being Overturned, or a Prison Threat

My Deaf Ear Hears Another Set of Lessons

Winter and Silence

Powerlessness

Mothers in the Bar

Remember Reminder Remains

Plenty

candy carrot as tarot

A Hole in My Heart the Size of a Postage Stamp

What Changed

Naming

Keep the Door Ajar

Two Women and the Rain

You Dress for the Army Ball

Buying a Half-Bushel

Divination

The French Horn

Aposematism

The Flowering Pear

The Room I Had as a Girl

Amorous Affliction/L'Affano Amoroso

My Father Comes Back from the Dead

In the Emergency Department They Ask me Questions

Desperate Beauty

Bearded Lady

As the Body

Buffalo River

ma's warm kitchen embrace.

How to Get out of a 20-Year Hole

I Said “I Miss You” & You Said “I Love You Too”

Valentine’s Day

Hold

The Boy

Living Room

Even Now at Sixty-One—Car Park at Night

Dear Y2K,

Wake

Aunt Beulah’s Baptist Dunking

Bird

Tornado szn/ money pyramid

Quilt Superstitions

Abandoned

The distance between rage and miracle

Self-Portrait in a Thunderstorm

Cello Once Hit by a Train

Cooking Among Our Cupboards

A Woman on Paper

Willingly

maquis

The Nude

The First of December

Searching for the Northern Lights While My Wife Sleeps

Investigation: Therapist’s Notes

The Artist at the Colony Asks Me If I’m Famous

Every One of Them, Mirrors

Corrected Version*: Bed

Corrected Version*: Bed

School

The Best of Both Worlds Isn’t the Best of Anything

Choosing

Watching Noodle-Making Videos on YouTube