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Go Home Root

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Root

BY ATSURO RILEY

The knee-boy
bent to his daddy’s shoes
spit-gobbetting and rag-shammying
 

hard for shine.

This poem appeared in the March 1, 2012 issue of the magazine.

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