I'm not hungry now The darkness swallows me as they eat. I'm starving now With a pain I can't defeat.

I need you by my side when it counts: when / the hurricane is coming....

Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.

maintained by as many pocket-protectors as Big Brother Big Sister requires

With gum stuck to my shoe . . .

The day my mother loses her hair, my classmates learn the scientific method.

By late august we've becomeaccustomed to the noise of thelocusts singing their mating song of hope.The calls rise and fall in tandemwith the breeze that blows overour bodies aswe lie together in the hammock,the gnarly limbs of an ancient oaklike a cradle around the balcony…

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