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Given Such Options

She couldn’t have carried knowledge their kind would soon be extinct. The sediment came when it did, sealing them in their varied positions.

Gone to Feed the Roses

His spirit shone fiercely, shaming the chasm by illuminating it.

Gone, the old verve, gone

My days pass through me as music through a thin, stretched wire.

Good Morning

Her girlish hand the color of rich vanilla floating over the flotsam.

Gopher Prairie

She was here. She could not go on. It was the end—the end of the world.

Grace

Hard to know what a prisoner believes, what the guard presumes.

Graduated

Another disposable medical mask drying in the June sun after all the ceremonies are done Looks for a second like a lip snarling in that flirting way you see the tattooed girls snarl

Grand Bay

They rise in waves, while a lone hawk remains unperturbed.

Granddaughters

Our grandmothers were bakers and nurses, spies and traitors.

Grave Clothes

I wonder why I feel bound to the gray-dry skin of you, the barrenness of feet.

Grog All Around

Colonel Hammer glares, willing us to attention. A few pilots sit up.

Happy Life

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

Harder and Other Poems

Pummel nests from limbs and drown the furred things in their dens.

Harvest

I peel back the hours and search for the light before it scatters.

Harvesters

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

Heavy Lifting

His chest was sweaty and his T-shirt stuck to it, bleeding black.

Hemingway’s Finca Vigía

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

Here, on the Frontier of Promise and Other Poems

I want to step out into sun to scintillate for waves to come and spray.

Highway 67 and Other Poems

I have placed my thoughts for you in a nest of copper shavings.

Ho, Beefalo!

The specimen, a man oblivious, is beautiful to behold, perfect, enough.

Holding

A spider drifted down so slowly from the ceiling on a silver thread.

Holding Our Own

A summer without passion, our selves pulled together like the leaves.

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

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

Holidays

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence.

Holy Defense and Other Poems

We were assigned straight to the lion’s muzzle, the Sardasht front.

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.

Hope

Snug in the spell of a cradle rocking, I remember the first time I floated.

Horn Gate and Other Poems

Rays burst from behind the mountain, sweep the broad beach.

How I Became a Banker

When the thugs from the bank showed, up my father laughed.