from Huracan’s Harp
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Birgitta the Healer
and Graugans the gray lag goose Anser
anser and Babalou
Bab-ilu gate of God
and the man who listened all the time
Nijinski (Vaslav) and
orisha Oya with that bit of buffalo
on her shin yet
and Simone who did “Fall, gall . . .
and gash gold-vermilion” as Father
Hopkins saw
and Mister Rogers quiet
butt of slurs who knew childhood grit
broadcast engineering nit
pick knew the only neighborhood we’d
know was mediated magic
knew how knew
why we had to be inside it
