would not know

Because I have not told but in May I worked landscaping by request. She could barely - and I asked her not to - bend over due to back pain. The area phonebook rode the long line from a trailer skid to a trunk or backseat. Is 100,000 too many when you can borrow your neighbor's?

Neighbors. I have been more consistent in my journal than I have here and a note I made about house sitting and butterfly feeding finally became an explanation.

While my parents cruised, I listened to one disc a day of Barack Obama: The Story. I am the first kid on my block to have it and they are jealous. Not because of the first name on the cover but by the second, the author. He wrote the final disc of Clemente and re-wove the previous 12 discs and I remember I was in my car changing to a scissor cut shirt and other athletic wear after a job fair.

Kay Ryan sticks me inside her recombinant rhyme like an underwater timing contest. In about two ending lines - or two ending words - she defies all laws and sinks a bubble of air. I have had "Shark's Teeth" animation video on file for a year. That came after a sequence of really liking things I found. Like Miley Cyrus interview with Jonathan Ross, Rosario Dawson's 25th Hour park scene, white and black Walt Whitman - Song of Myself and film critics Siskel & Ebert with Bob Costas in four parts. She is so smart about what happens and what misses happening. Her words have been waiting for me in a book while her - her very own! - voice is in my head.