Laying Down the Groundwork
When I got up before anyone else / I took the heavy clams from the fridge / and put them in a bowl of cool water.
Laying Down the Groundwork
I took the heavy clams from the fridge and put them in a bowl of cool water.
in their natural environment
my take on cruelty and death and the general business of meaning-making.
he found them impossibly closed guarding tight against the tap water which would explode their salt-water cells
thatSo much for that, then?
so much?
naturallycrueltyutilityBut back to our scheduled program:
too much?too much.
considering the current unfolding data,
doubt is not the absence of faith
as they say in some other, higher context
Anything with a hinge might as well be open.
That one I heard from an ex-burglar on reality TV.
Hedgie Choi is an MFA candidate at Johns Hopkins University. She received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers.
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