Syllabus for the Dark Ahead

Throughout this course, / we’ll study the American / landscape of our yard, coiled line...

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Armed Services Editions

My copy of The Fireside Book of Verse / is as the seller promised—the stapled spine...

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Plácido Domingo on the Northbound Train

Two seats away, my father watched / the tenor study the world that rumbled...

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The Long Deployment

For weeks, I breathe his body in the sheet / and pillow. I lift a blanket to my face...

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The Valhalla Machine

Trying to speak, they are like the machine / built for an opera—girders of steel...

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Homeport

Even on weekends the cruiser / would shudder, flicker spaces / with a redorange blink...

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Dinner with Kathleen Battle

To protect the instrument, she spent all night / gesturing at plates or nodding yes...

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