Poems

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I Wanted to Be

Rattle / April 26, 2009

I wanted to be so many things. Bigger than I was. A tall tower of building blocks. A shoelace tied […]

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After the Bowling Stopped

Rattle / April 24, 2009

Last night, this guy played guitar on stage, and it made me think of you, because you play guitar on

Aurora Borealis

Rattle / April 23, 2009

Kodiak, Alaska, March 1944 Between clouds I looked up at the sky and down on the ground: snow clouds, snow

The Edge

Rattle / April 19, 2009

for Dennis Covington I never talk of the last time I saw my grandfather in a

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The Whole Chalupa

Rattle / April 14, 2009

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/McCarthyChalupa.mp3″] There’s an educational controversy raging in Massachusetts over the “MCAS” tests, a series of standardized tests that students

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What Teachers Make

Rattle / April 13, 2009

(Or, If Things Don’t Work Out You Can Always Go to Law School) He says the problem with teachers is