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ExpletivesThere are plenty of words to describethe prostitute who loosens my right caninewith a single, well-placed hookas I kneel beside her on the sidewalkone rainy Tuesday in Mayto see if she is breathing.Featherweight isn’t one of them.Neither is angel,except in the most earthly sense of that word,nor any of the garden variety expletivesmore suited to careening down a flight of stairsor smashing one’s thumb with a hammer.And I don’t need a single onewhen the medics return to the firehouse that nightand slapheadedly relay her name, Princess,to the rest of us sitting around our slabof green Formica,filthy from the afternoon’s workand cutting hungrily into steaksso perfectly rare,they call for an astonishing red,something heavy with forest floorbalanced by notes of apple or citrusand just the slightest hint of mangled pride.16
Jonathan HarrisEvening Neighboryou who flicker behind our backyard fence,saxophone man, your blue notes scalingthe bougainvillea, the juicy lemons, the brokeair before night, bring us the fire, feed us, help ussee the animals in the caged cloudsas they swell into pastel. A summer agoEden was ours, the fruit delicious & the animalsloose. All our horses won & we were loadedwith grace. Prayers like this one flowed from caves.What a toll time takes on love. Our armslock but do not embrace. We stand still as statues,feeling you & waiting to sing.I can’t tell you how much I miss my father.17
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