contents
raze
your
son
is
a
black_dog
who
won't
live
past
his
fifth
birthday
.
some
sort
of
lab
mix,
with
a
face
too
human
to
belong
to
any
breed
you
know
of
.
pictures
of
the
two
of
you
together
are
threaded
through
a
book
of
your
poems
.
in
one
shot
,
you're
standing
in
your
kitchen
,
smiling
in
profile
with
your
teeth
tucked
in
.
another
has
you
facing
the
camera
.
his
left
eye
half
-closed.
yours
open
wide
enough
to
see
the
sky
beyond
the
canopy
that
keeps
the
rain
from
seeping
in
. fifty footnotes
float
above
your
words
.
all
of
them
lead
back
to
the
first
page
.
there
is
no
table
of
contents.
only
a
numbered
list
that
hints
at
how
much
truth
runs
through
the
fiction
you've
hewed.
240922
what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from