But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. -James Baldwinbar ditch gone to swamp & brack cracked map turtle there in the weeds bony stalks of winter cotton that click -clack you could hear but can’t for the highway hear a long time ago the stories go but when you are wondering was that it’s only ever sundown only ever Rosedale Elementary ringed by razor wire only ever at the field’s edge an abandoned thresher black & blown row of tines in its rustmouth
