At school hookup today, the vice-principal tapped at my car window. She bent down and told me gently, with troubled eyes, and
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He was born during Hurricane Ike, & this makes sense because he was born inside Hurricane Ike, & the details don’t matter
Thoughts While Slicing Berries Sometimes, I don’t think of you at all, unless I see you. Then, I want you— want to
American bison and calf in Yellowstone National Park (Arturo de Frias Marques). On screen, the man approaches the horse’s back end and
Portrait in Deep East Oakland A boy is drawing himself by the lockers in the linoleum hallway that smells like Doritos and
Fashion Crisis The seagulls dip their wings into the rainbows on puddles. Hairspray holds the clouds up and makes the oceans sultry.
Earl Jr., Pittsburgh, 1974 “I’ve spent so many days wondering why you keep asking all these questions about me. About us. Dammit,
One minute he was singing grace notes, that proud-tail mockingbird in the sycamore, next he was pressed against the drive, held in
2017 The creature does not rush. It creeps with great care along the tattered russet bark of the slash pine limb, a
Of all the larger inhabitants of the soil, probably none is more important than the earthworm. --Rachel Carson, Silent Spring In 1973,