BRIEFLY NOTED
1.
A woman in her twenties
is a tropical paradise
that toys with the idea
of becoming a Buddhist nun.
2.
Nothing is as it seems,
even a dead-end road.
3.
A parody on the alphabet:
thirteen consonants
and the gender-neutral
Swedish pronoun hen.
4.
An eclectic portrait of his mother
from whom he learned to
“retain it deeply within.”