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Other 2013 RR Events
Downtown Raleigh R-Line
Marie Howe & Victoria Redel Reading March 23, 2013
Mohsin Hamid,
author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
March 10th, 2013 RR is hosting his afterparty directly following his Quail Ridge Reading NCWN Spring 2013 Conference April 13, 2013 in Greensboro RR will host a vendor table Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival
April 14, 2013 in Cary, NC
RR will participate on a panel
Reading
April 20, 2013
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by Joseph Millar
for Rob Greene
Once we shovel the trash from the switch room
sweep the black widows hanging down
from the vents and bitter leaves of insulation
speckled with fiberglass and asbestosonce we clear out the warped ceiling tiles
stained with squirrel urine
and the desiccated raccoon carcass
trapped in the dead furnace bloweronce we pay first and last
to the ancient diabetic landlord
shuffling over in his aluminum walker,
his blotched hands gripping
the ribbed blue handles,
his John Deere hat pulled over his eyeswe start to think we belong here
across from the veterinarian
next to the abandoned market
this gray day in March, my birthday—
though I will fall asleep later on
trying to meditate in the front seat
on the ruins of time,
on the sounds of the wind
making words in the oaks and pecan trees
words we would try to search out and fashion
next to the old woman's tailor shop,
at its door a potted camellia,
in its window a hand-sewn rose.
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