“Add a handful of errant youth. Our teens will provide the yeast, allowing the legend to rise. Already they have scaled the exterior and breached the hollow core, where dark water now fills the bottom of the cylinder. The surface appears placid, a fathom beneath the hazardous perch of our delinquent heroes.”

“Depression has been found to be likely / familial, an unconducted orchestra / of blood left”

“But now, she is crying and all of the children are gathered around her. Short, ugly noises come from her throat. Why isn't Angie,  the recess attendant coming for her? Angie will be here any moment now.”

“When we’re finished eating, my sister sets the pizza box on top of a stack of used take-out containers piled on top of the garbage. My sister has a black heart tattooed on her chest, the first tattoo she ever got, back in high school – when she met Zeb, ten or so years later, she had the black heart engulfed in wild blue flames. The tips of the flames are visible over the neckline of her shirt as she bends to put the leftover pizza slices in the fridge.”

“my friend, an elegy that has taken into account, into heart & October wind, / the weight of someone’s soft”

“"I’m sorry," she said when they had picked up all of it, their crocheted fingertips brushing for a moment as their spools met. “

Her opera glasses. Her black and white / artistic snapshots taken on the August '36 / return trip on the Normandy. She titled”