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Deeper Green, and Glowing

Show me how to look forward to these things. To see them and pursue. It is something to bark like a dog barks. It is something to wade in the snow like a chicken, lost. My hands don’t feel their fingers, and so my answers come but do not grasp the reason for their caring. Still they care. They take long baths and watch the water flush without spinning down a drain dead center between a world where I breathe under water, and a world where water is the substance of my skin.

Shya Scanlon reads from his work on Thursday April 5, 7pm at Rust Belt Books (202 Allen Street), with Steven Huff opening. Part of Just Buffalo’s Communique series. Free.