Tributes

Twice

Rattle / November 5, 2018

I was hit by a car. The first time, two years ago, crossing the street with my sister toward church. […]

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Poem for a Blue Page

Rattle / November 2, 2018

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/RaoBlue.mp3″] Tonight I am remembering the Krishna-skin skies of summer & the way your laugh made a jacaranda tree

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Auschwitz I & II

Rattle / October 31, 2018

My group arrived after the site had closed So our guides put on Shoah and made plans for the morning

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Ask

Rattle / October 29, 2018

ask for forgiveness again the man with the dark skin sat in the crevasse of the building and asked for

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Sonnet

Rattle / October 26, 2018

Each evening we climb a slightly higher hill, look down again into the city’s basin, say This is the view.

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Handscape

Rattle / October 24, 2018

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/DanceHandscape.mp3″] He was teaching his students the parts of a plow while reading the Georgics in Latin: a learned