They laughed the day they broke my humerus
and splinted it with wire coat hangers wrapped
in black tape so my skin couldn’t breathe,
so I’d understand honest pain.
These days we still don’t stop for death.
Instead, we pass by and outside the window
lining the suburban boulevard one tree gleams
in the morning sun—the trunk wound tight in tinsel...
Bag of sugar sized muscle pumps blood. Most reptiles:
3-chambered heart but gator 4-chambers like mammals
& birds which gators used to be millions of years ago
when they were dinosaurs...
Their hope is that this project will help shift the perspective of those perpetuating Islamophobia and xenophobia as well as de-stigmatize Post-Traumatic Stress and other social issues.
We walked along the edges of the pickup bed to avoid the alligators in the center, we were tipping and taunting and finally falling into the bed and scrambling, forgetting there were alligators when we found the sun-rotted tarps . . .
“Your prepper’s pantry will be the building block of your family’s survival system,” the page begins. “Have you read our guide, ‘37 Items to Hoard Before a Crisis’? If so, the list below of essentials to stockpile will likely be familiar to you.” Martha has not read the guide, and she’s no stranger to crisis.