Author name: Rattle

Escapees from the Zoo

Rattle / May 24, 2009

How did they climb over the natural barricades of woven branches, thorned with rebuke? The emu’s legs were not long […]

Rattle / May 23, 2009

If after a July dinner party the noise outside the back door drowns out your thank-you’s and good-bye’s and your

Rattle / May 21, 2009

The horizontal clouds above Molokai and Lanai are turning pearly. I sit with a cigarette looking through the interstices of

Rattle / May 20, 2009

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Rattle / May 19, 2009

When we finally took her cigarettes away Nana tried to smoke chicken bones, lighting each gnarled end with matches we

Rattle / May 17, 2009

Out here on Route 38, I’ve learned the difference between noise and sound. Sound is familiar: the whirr and clank