Author name: Rattle

Poems

I Guess

Right after my parents’ divorce,
people blurted the single question
they’d been dying to ask for years.
How’d they last a day?

Audio, Poems

How to Forget

I am lining my memories up against the wall.
They are begging me for reprieve. Here is the night
I found you on the floor, folded

like laundry.

Audio, Poems

All of Them

Down Syndrome Larry, my favorite
guy in the residence, the perfect
blend of Pillsbury Dough Boy
and Charlie Chaplin, all gap toothed
grins, warm cuddles and charm
bowing to kiss my aunt’s hand
when she gave him a silver dollar
the Christmas I brought him home

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