To make the fossil talk,
I told it a story,
pinching paragraphs
On Sharon,
Carlos, on Jamal and Ivy and Channel
On everyone
That Includes Lola, Clive and Tina ……
They all know Toby!
And why wouldn’t they?
My story grabs a neighborhood.
It lives right by the rail road track.
Sometimes too real to make sense why those
walls shake when the 7:00 a.m. train thunders pass.
Explicit Literary Journal 