I don’t know what to say to you
and have called you names—mutilator of souls,
warden of dust, evocateur— that only placed me

The morning new cement is laid—at last! —
along the perimeter of Penn’s remodeled highrise
(although the old had spalled, cracked and heaved

During his stay, he catches glimpses of the TV’s
glare, a black-and-white dim series

Knowing that Penn had dabbled, periodically,
in paints, noting the modest watercolor

Hundreds came to pay tribute and to pick over more
than 22,000 objects: sequined vests, fur coats, goblets,
bedroom sets, vases, vitrines, dolls, limousines

One could easily overlook his 60 placid paintings
in the current show. From 1840 until he
died, Fitz Hugh Lane focused

The specimen, from the Cordillera Septentrional,
exhibits visual characteristics of natural

Until now, the only vertebrates known
to feed exclusively on sponges were two or three

Most of the mass of the universe
may be contained in dark matter.
No one knows what that may be.

A candidate for a quasar has been detected
by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite: