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I am born. I dream the nightroom of your body,
and in that place, you sing, build me of words

As a beginning writer I had a typically naïve conception of style as something added to a finished piece, as if the content is water and style the vase you pour it in—​a vase that shapes and decorates but doesn’t alter the chemistry of the...

They put their guns in the only boxes
that they had, and those the well-
liquored strips of gin barrels 

That day the boys
took us quickly.
They took us calmly.

Agricultural patents already cover everything from “low pungency” onions to “brilliant white” cauliflower, and seed companies are scrambling to claim what territory remains. How one group of plant breeders is fighting to keep seeds as part...