Shed

—But roughly but adequately it can shelter In which she whompedand tamped the earth to make a floor. Beat a rhythm-rainof brunts with oar and haft. Gagged raw wallboards(gaps and…

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Stranger

They would congregate right regular. • (In the dirt-lot of the First BaptistOr along by that abbatoir off the brackcreek.) • The hot meat of the matterBeing to parse-patch what…

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Playacting

Early tribal cultures, while celebrating their rites of initiation or sacrifice, retained a very precise and subliminal awareness that the compulsive extremes to which they went...were in essence mere playacting,…

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