Befriending a couple is like arriving in a European town where the language[1] is unfamiliar to you. Schoolgirls sing near the synagogue of apricots,
The tornado that skipped our house left chain saws snarling a block away to clear the splintered trees. Power out, phones out, batteries
Within weeks her city will be burning its two fevers as will the city of my adoption. Her city was my city. She
I say civilization began when a man doing it doggy style and a woman knelling before him face on the ground decided they both