Where bushes periodically burn, children fear othe

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whose scornings are flint on dry rock
which—don't we know—is all the heart afforded
a certain type: untended, magnifying boys.

oh fickle lens! oh smoke and smoldering beetle!
oh thwarted desire in foothills of brush
and now flame.


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Camille Dungy

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Camille Dungy


Camille Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and Cave Canem. She is associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.