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The workers specialize according to their age.
At first they feed the queen her royal jelly
and then they nurse the larvae in their combs.

A yacht lies down
in my window, on the harbour
the dusk has come.

Rick Trundy does not like staying ashore, even when the wind is blowing twenty knots. It’s 4:30 in the morning in mid-April, early in the lobster season, and while most of the lobstermen in Stonington, Maine, are someplace warm, drinking...

I breathe the leaves of the basil
It has news for me—
For all my senses

My grandfather’s right eye was a frozen slab
of milk-white ice that light never thawed
and when he slept, the lid didn’t drown
the curse of its constant stare.

did it come in the bark of a dog
in the eucalypt air,

the marsupial faces tilted, listening,
or the ghostly skin and the foreign hair,

There are those that in the distance seem a swarm of gnats
those that with their barking try to rally us in a campaign against the stars
those that torment their prey

In 1768, Benjamin Franklin, then postmaster general of England’s colonies in America, was presented with a mystery: why were British packet ships sailing from Falmouth, England, to New York regularly taking two weeks longer to reach their...

Like wallabies we hurtle
This way and that
Unworried whether the world
Be round or flat.

He was an example of anti-nominal determinism,
though he was friendly in manner, kindly
explaining that my light headedness