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Song For an Old Lover

In the South we spend the hot still nights
lying awake in the dark under the ceiling fan that rattles
and bucks as it spins,

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Xenophilia

On Sunday nights, when my father drove his old car
home from my grandmother’s house in the dark

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Covenant

When the third moon went out, slowly vanishing
like a shadow getting smaller,
we still swore everything would be all right.

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Swan Song

That cold night I finally knew I was dying.
I put out the cat and lit a fire in the fireplace.

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Ethnography

The wind huffed in our ears all the way up the hill,
my skirt kicked and tangled with my boots.

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Stella

We were movers back in the day
before I found this chair that locked me in

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Old Man River

The night my grandmother died
the full winter moon was shivering,

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In the Glass Darkly

I heard the train
like a phonecall from God

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Comet

I took my heart to Greece
I did not expect anything from you

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Zoology

The mounted bison in the museum
who watch over their glass-eyed calf

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