Sublime

“I’m Mrs. Burns-Cooper,” said the woman, “and after this, well, it’s all right this time, because it’s your first time, but after this time always use the back entrance.” There is a pear in my icebox, and one end of rye bread. Except for three Irish potatoes and a cup of flour and the empty Christmas boxes, there is absolutely nothing on my shelf.

provenance

Primevally

To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.

Burns was

Wally Brown

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans

Annie Allen had won Brooks the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950.