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Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of the poetry collection ...

THE SHAPE GOT ME FIRST. Gnarled and hooded, the gatekeeper to the underworld rising up out of a frozen wetland. Then the color. Blood-red, with some green and purple-brown mottling, an uneasy union of ...

Ape: v. To imitate, to mimic (pretentiously, irrationally, or absurdly). To mimic the reality. (See also parrot.) Bat: v. To hit away, to strike or hit a ball with a bat. There is also the US ...