open city 07

Open City #7 – The Rubbed Away Girl

Table of Contents

21 Legitimation Crisis

22 Snowed In

43 Hampden City

46 Bennington College Rap

47 Civil Servants

56 Two Poems

60 Yellow and Maroon

71 Rezoning in Brooklyn

73 Chicken Pox and Other Stories

78 Untitled

79 Old Soul

95 Who By Fire

107 Two Poems

116 The House Where I Was Born

120 The Diagram and the Poet

127 Practice Problem

136 Thrift

137 The Rubbed Away Girl