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Spring Salmon at Night

Rattle / April 8, 2011

I thought the west wind called me from bedthe night the river ran so hard.I followed it over the moonlit […]

Rattle / April 6, 2011

Because he can’t say popsicle, the two-year-old next door says possible! possible! and I remember learning to read in a green-walled

Rattle / April 4, 2011

The collar of your brown blazer turned up against a cutting wind, you hustle, late, to the train stop. The

Rattle / April 3, 2011

how the pain becomes your steadyand people lose patience with you for not getting the surgerythey would choose in your

Rattle / April 2, 2011

He talked on long afterI’d been shooed up to bedon calamine-lotioned legs,his voice finding a holethrough the hot air registerover

Rattle / April 1, 2011

“…the strange experience of beauty.”–Marianne Moore I discovered a beauty spot onmy mind soon after we met.Self-diagnosed weeks later asbenign