My Poor Old High School
One of the oldest big old stucco buildings in Southern California, my poor old Excelsior High School stands there naked […]
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The Turkeys by the Road Consult with the Deer
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MillerTurkeys.mp3″] Hey don’t you love this heat this smoke that car slowing down
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Mustering Out
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/LickMustering.mp3″] When the war ended, we were ready to go home. We heard about troop ships delayed, being prepared,
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Fugue: Red Bird Taking Wing
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/KnightFugue.mp3″] after Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s La Femme qui fuit, a novel based on the life of her grandmother, the poet
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A Housekeeper’s Villanelle
I learned the beauty of futility, and now I know its sorrow from cleaning rooms at the Holiday Inn; what
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The Indian Killer Explains Manifest Destiny
Why did you kill the Indians? he is asked. Becuz they was there. It had to be done. They was