Having Been Born, Having Been Raised Purified by an authentic filter orange for the fake names we say or blue for clean slate the ideal slices through us embedded with shock safe vessel for turning a thing over like a rock like a shangri-la that we could still be surprised by the amber inventory four o’clocks in the floral clock or daturas at midnight sometimes we leave a dream before it’s done with us sometimes we hold on to the wrong thing dumb to our instincts one day wake up, feeling what a stone feels leaving the hand Julie Choffel Julie Choffel is the author of The Hello Delay (Fordham UP) and most recently the chapbook The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love (Finishing Line Press). Born and raised in Austin, TX, she now lives near Hartford, teaches at the University of Connecticut, and dreams about the desert.
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