167 Bluff Road.167 Bluff Road After the burning we moved to my grandparent's house, then to my aunt's. After Daddy left we settled into a trailer where our house had been. Ash. concrete, the squared foundation -- burnt pile of our former lives, a reminder we cross each day. The three of us remaining, my mother, my sister and I would thumb through expensive architectural design books for the perfect home. For a while there had been the insurance money to spend. and the possibility of another start. It can be born, we told ourselves, everything can be born. Mama wanted contemporary, my sister traditional. I wanted a small cabin decorated in rustic oranges and browns. We spent our time after school this way, marking changes to floor plans with our pens as we ate macaroni or fried rice. All the while we complained of the trailer's cheap carpet. although we called the trailer a mobile home. Something deep inside us knew we would never leave. But we spent our time planning our new lives so that we could be silent about the quiet man that had left. John Frazier is a poet living in Washington, D.C. where he teaches rhetoric and creative writing at Georgetown Day School Georgetown Day School is an independent, PreK-12 school in Washington, DC. It is familiarly called "GDS," or less frequently "Georgetown Day;" the high school is sometimes abbreviated GDHS. GDS was founded in 1945 as the first integrated school in the District. . John is currently working on a new collection of poems, Husk husk (husk) an outer covering or shell, as of some fruits and seeds. psyllium husk the cleaned, dried seed coat from the seeds of Plantago . In 1998 he won the Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth (born August 3 1921 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American poet and literary critic. Life Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut[1], was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Chicago. Prize for poetry for work featured in Real Sugar, his first manuscript manuscript, a handwritten work as distinguished from printing. The oldest manuscripts, those found in Egyptian tombs, were written on papyrus; the earliest dates from c.3500 B.C. . His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals and anthologies including The Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. Review, Beyond the
Frontier, Revolutionary Voices, Bay Windows, Negotiations and The
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