Children’s bones grow quicker

in springtime, says educational

Vegas. We had some mis-

givings about keeping our eyes on

the carpet, the fuzziness of

a losing pattern. My favorite part of

our marriage was the circul-

atory system, preserved lit up

in its own dark room. Some relative

would spend half of February in

Florida and bring all us kids back

those suckers you force into

an orange, to drink its juice with-

out peeling it. What a lot of nerve

endings it takes to make a finger

tip, or any extremity, so far out there

that it is forced and expected to take

its cues from things external. To be

influenced by the exhibition, which

is to say the holding out.


-- Jen Tynes