So I never realized what a city mouse I actually was until a tall, handsome, dashing stranger—the kind we’d all order up from Design-a-Man.com if we could bring ourselves to believe they really existed—invited me to sleep (chastely) with him under the stars in a bower of love and peace (just like Tristan and Isolde, …
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… I could tell you all about the South
all about me
the Spanish moss I call my hair
the way my mother bleeds Tabasco
When I sing the blues
the river is the bass line
Listen
Listen
You can hear the tree frogs
crying
– From “Lies to Tell in Denver in a Heat Wave,” The Goddess of Gumbo (2006) -
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