From the song “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” by Cake
With fingernails that shine like justice/And a voice that is dark like tinted glass.
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From “On Catalpa Street” “by Jo McDougall from Towns Facing Railroads
At dusk, when kitchen-window light
settles on the grass like a picnic cloth …
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From “A Piece of News” Short Story by Eudora Welty
It was dark and vague outside. The storm had rolled away to faintness like a wagon crossing a bridge.
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