aging
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Poem after Personals in The New York Review of Books (Soumettre à une Interrogation)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 798 man seeks unattached heart woman seeks mature gent mannattached heart woman seek/soumettre intellectual secure companionship vibrant as a travel agent que vigoureux cherche femme sachant que vigoureux cherche femme sachant la vie nous délaisser for relationship for travel for heat vibrant que vigoureux chercheur femme sachant que vigoureux cherche femme sachant…
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Impossible Numbers
Wikipedia Poem, No. 418 after Vijay Seshadri and numbers no matter how abstract laced together in a ceramic bowl farmost impossible an implication of angels argue about 3 green apples in an old lady’s outstretched hands the numb plain makes no sense lust in a cracked ceramic bowl clearly the old lady and the victim…
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“The Summer’s Over, Jack Spicer!” by Matthew Dickman
And Paris, France, is still Paris, France, though we’ve never been there together but might if life were a little longer and no one ever invented knives. I am crossing the bridge again and the city is behind me being rescued or being destroyed with a leaf on the end of a branch turning maple-syrup…
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Study of van Gogh’s Roses
Morning Now his Roses Pallish Meer
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“To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel, 1509”
I have already grown a goiter in this drudgery— As water does to cats in Lombardy, Or in whatever other region it may be— Which forces my belly to hang under my chin. I feel my beard skyward, and memory On top of my coffer,and my chest like a harpy’s; And on my face all…
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“A Giovanni da Pistoia quando l’autore dipingeva la volta della Sistina, 1509”
I’ ho già fatto un gozzo in questo stento, come fa l’acqua a’ gatti in Lombardia o ver d’altro paese che si sia c’a forza ‘l ventre appicca sotto ‘l mento. La barba al cielo, e la memoria sento in sullo scrigno, e ‘l petto fo d’arpia, e ‘l pennel sopra ‘l viso tuttavia mel…
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