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The cleaning lady
How to Become a Saint When You’re Not a Perfectionist
Moth Hole
Riveredge
Reliquary
Coming Back
We Call Them Harbor Seals
O Rome, you are a heartless lover
This Is My Blood: A Liturgyfor Brother Mosquito
Fickle
Lovenox
To My Friend, Between Scans
At the Good Day Café
The Message I Receive
Wednesday’s Child
On Wanting to Kiss Kandinsky’s Heavy Circles and di Paolo’s Baptism of Christ
Carrying the Shell to Iona
Equinox
Matter Matters
We Call It Hunger