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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