I’m sure other kids had some log (alligator) peering out of some rancid water. Plum Creek to Valentine, the Severn River to the Chesapeake—I’m
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth, you tell me, lying on a towel sifting through quartz, calcium
Emma DePanise’s poems are forthcoming or have appeared recently in journals such as Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, The National Poetry Review