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Happy Life

Yang Wan-li said, There’s enough to eat. Who needs a lot of money?

Harvesters

I’ve got other plans. And they don’t center on ringnecks.

Havana 2012

Havana, Cuba, on the inevitable cusp of change. A photo gallery.

He Has Gone to Be with the Women

Some people are so beautiful, they belong everywhere they go.

Heart Songs

A dangerous heat came from him, the heat of some interior decay.

Hemingway’s Finca Vigía

Hemingway’s Royal typewriter sat atop a volume of Who’s Who.

Hitler’s Bathtub

They found her where such girls are found. A Manhattan street.

Holiday Gas Station (Corner of Fourth and Higgins), Missoula, Montana

The mountains out your window make Central Park feel rinky-dink.

Home Help

It dawned on me my passion was not for her but for the making-up.

Homecoming

I walk over to her for what seems to be an eternity. “May I have this dance?”

Hometown Nocturne and Other Poems

What is greater: the distance between these bodies, or their need?

Homily and Other Poems

Here lies the girl difficult to discern. Here lies the girl misanthropic.

Honeymoon

He could not stop marveling at the velvet quality of
her skin.

Honeymoon

The palm’s outline shimmied in the sunlight against the aqua curtain.

Hop-On Hop-Off

I saw the man for the first time in Budapest on the Széchenyi Bridge.

Horse & Rider, Part 2

Those are the horses you win on, the ones that want to kill you.

Horse Poem

The horse is beautiful and would rather be doing anything else.

Hours in a Library

The great season for reading is between eighteen and twenty-four.

House Affair

After seventeen years we’re parting ways. Breakups hurt, even this one.

How the Winters Once Were

That cold green streak morning had nothing in common with us.

I Too Dislike

She sits in her wax like a candle. A woman comes, a woman goes.

Ice Fishing

I’m just wired hard for hunting, and not so much at all for fishing.

If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World

What if Eve was an Indian & Adam was never kneaded from the earth.

Imaginary Intangible Thing

They met on the app in April, shortly after her twenty-ninth birthday.

In Custody and Other Poems

Make haste, my love, I am redrawing the scale of escape.

In Passing

The ashes of a human being are not ash. The body burns into wood.

In Praise of the Du-Rag

you a ghetto dreamcatcher under my fitted warding ghosts

In the Absence of Rain

Blacked-out little angel, you shuffle home under the streetlights.

In the Guise of Couplets

Every room came furnished half-real & dead like mirrors on skin

In the Season of Facing Away

Some longings appear so frequently they must be instinct.