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Sacro Bosco

After you left, I put on the Pixies, lit a cigarette and looked out at the rain on the slate rooftops of Lazio, grey, riddled with satellites and slanted, orange ...

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My Doctor Warns Me Against Travel Abroad or What Is a Dream to Me

To grieve an American grief a delicate feeling: from afar      wistful and brief          To grow soft  on the milk ...

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The Space Where I Make a Life Is a Rented Room

I retrofitted a shelter.  Burned driftwood. Drove a gash across the country, slept in the car, dreaming, of you. I was in love  and erasing the ...

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Boy With Thorn

   Wedged in my plantar fascia’s rivers of tissue, the tip of a spike from the locust    tree—some long as a boning knife—whose  thorn ...

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Table of Men

What I want from you has little to do with sex, though it, like wine and bread, rests on the table between us: the curse that escapes your craned neck; the way you ...

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What Were You Waiting For

It was a spectacular spring: sparrows bickering in the trees, the street carts smelling of syrupy cashews in front of the Jewish Museum— you bought flowers, said Hi to ...

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Too Much and Therefore Nothing

The plot’s restless. Newness grown stiff from disuse. To believe to have lived through the end of something and still to remain in that tight ruse of ...

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Love and Death Speaking at Once

We come together.  To love someone means to imagine their death.  2 a.m. and you lie awake in fear of us. What if? What if? Call your mother. Say you’re ...

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Two American Sonnets Starring Octavia Butler

Terrance Hayes
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