I’m not interested in one thing
in this museum case. Not

that coin, filthy, ancient.
Not that little marble phallus.
Not this tiny Isis, or Byzantine slave bracelet, or
blue-green shard of Roman glass.
What...

He worries that his wife has her mother’s hypochondria.
She worries that she has her mother’s rheumatoid arthritis.
They worry that her father has his father’s sclerotic arteries.
She worries that her...