( Windchime--Tony Hoagland )

( Elena--Pat Mora )

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( Time--Mana Aghaee )

( The Hymn of a Fat Woman--Joyce Huff )

( April 1: God Says Yes to Me--Kaylin Haught )

( The dark soft languages are being silenced: Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue falling one by one back into the moon. )

1.  After School Special--"I said, Piper Jane--explain your picture please.  The broad shouldered figure without its head is her daddy, who doesn't think about her enough.  The red swirling clouds are not clouds, they're the roses she throws to all our friends in heaven.  And the cat with its tail snapped off and its claws nailed to the floor?  Is ( Read more... )

April 5th: "when the truth is my toes tingle like the capital of Venezuela."

( Caracas )

( The Creation Story ( I am ashamed/I never had the words/to carry a friend from her death/to the stars/correctly ) )