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I Search for Koreatown

I can only say I am here searching solo for remnants of Seoul Drive

If I Owned a Gun

It was an act that made me feel safer but also somehow more imperiled.

If the River Was Whiskey, If I Was a Duck

They’re not, and it’s not, and we’re not, and only a god can save us.

Iggy, Summer

The excursion brought shape to that entire scruff-covered summer.

In London Town

Part of my desire to be in London related to its writers.

In New York

It’s raining concrete. I bite my grief wetly. Who will test these chains?

In Sloane Street

Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.

Intersection

A boat-tailed grackle counts the passing cars from the traffic light.

Introversion

She looked over through the falling snow. “Jack?” she said. “Is that you?”

Jackpot

Don’t start conversations or attract attention. Don’t be suspicious.

Jennifer Egan

I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.

Jerusalem According to Cats

A friend said she hated the State of Israel because it killed her cat.

King and Other Poems

The irreversible ink stain breaking the face of whatever we skate on.

Krassavitseh

They were such dummkopfs they kicked out the Jews.

Lagos

No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.

Lapses

Whatever was wrong with his brain, he could still smell her skin.

Lazarus rises from the grave, New York City, 2023

poor Larry. you never asked to be raised from your tomb.

Learning to Be Still

All afternoon it rains on the traffic outside my window. It’s nothing new.

Lewisburg and Other Poems

Desire whittled me a tool I’d never seen but knew how to use.

Liability

You decide that in this city all things are possible, even happiness.

Liars

Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.

Liars

Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.

Listen to Me

Mark was spending his life with one of the world’s weaklings.

Little Road

There is still the same reaching of the tongue for that pink ridge.

Losing the Farm

I did lose my dirty fingernails and ragged legs, my purpled forearms.

Love among the Stacks

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Lullaby

Something has to be what this is, old and primitive, and it sounds like this.

Manhattan

Time is changing. November 1. Clocks back one hour. New season.

Maud’s Crusade

“There’s life after birth! That’s what jails and lethal injections are for!”

Migrant

Sit beside me. Old country, I am hopeful and troubadour.