Selling out -- Hoops -- Moose -- Bum rush -- Silk city -- Metaphor -- Maddeningly elusive, yet endlessly tempting -- Urban renewal. The backyard garden wall is mossy green ; What he gave of himself lacked the adornment of lilacs ; Back then I had a ceaseless yearning ; My breathing ; A squeegee blade along your tongue's length ; What of my fourth-grade teacher at Reynolds Elementary ; How untouchable the girls arm-locked strutting ; That moment in church when I stared at the reverend's black ; Out of punctured wounds we spun up, less -- Letter to Brooks. Fern rock ; Olney ; Logan ; Wyoming ; Hunting Park ; Erie ; Allegheny ; North Philadelphia ; Susquehanna-Dauphin ; Cecil B. Moore ; Girard ; Fairmont ; Spring garden.
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