December 2010
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I checked your growth
Your legs grew two feet in a year. At ten years, your eyes were reflecting pools, and now they’ve gotten algae clouded. Bloom crowds you; your roots spread matted and matte. Well, life don’t sparkle; tree bark don’t shine, and you’re no pool to be swum through, no, not you, girl—you’re living and doing and dun- brown and green, no thought now but a hunger. There always comes a hunger, an...
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pack of two
From the beginning, I knew animals were much more endearing than humans, so aping wolves, I ate pig and beef, calling it deer. I baked bacon in my sister’s plastic oven, devouring it without silverware or hands. Wherever I walked, I walked like a wolf, dropping my left foot into the print of the right. Wolves do this to produce tracks that make a pack seem half its true size, I had read, but I...