after Rodin   You never loved me. If it were really me whom   you adored, not just the sound of your own   voice, you should have been able…

  He was walking in the woods when he heard that laughter, those exclamations, that joy. And what to do but stop, heart thumping, and listen to the children’s voices…

  Are you an immigrant, asks my son’s teacher when I drop him off. Perhaps I seem a little harsh, I walk too quickly, my teeth aren’t right.   He…

  As soon as we saw you in the movie we knew you were where the Jews were buried which we find out they were and when you illustrate the…

  —they have known each other forever grew up together, and so one tree would comment and the others would heartily agree and a few would laugh and there was…

  My great-grandparents were hounded out of their native lands; no streets were named after them in those lost-named Slavic towns where they left everything, nor in Argentina where the…

  I used to believe it took so much to kill   without a bullet. I didn’t know the hollowness of bodies,   how hands can lunge and it can…

  to greed. Or even need. Wish neither on no one. I’m in the dentist’s chair, numb to aching, wanting it over, thinking about   want. I want, I’ll say…

  I played with her at school because no one else would and because she had only two dresses, one striped, one plaid. And because my mother said, You be…

  I buy one I return one I buy another   I return it this goes on all fall—   my hunger unsated my thirst unslaked I try the zippers…

    On the night my grandfather rejected tea and offered his last breath instead, the earth shifted an inch. And I listened out for a rustle of leaves or…

  In the morning which is a hill in yellow April without you I enter the light that’s angling   against half a year’s winter; wisteria’s tangled in the bittersweet.…