We Are Water. Wally Lamb
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This one is for two strong women:
Joan Joffe Hall and Shirley Woodka
Ghost of a Chance
You see a man
trying to think.
You want to say
to everything:
Keep off! Give him room!
But you only watch,
terrified
the old consolations
will get him at last
like a fish
half-dead from flopping
and almost crawling
across the shingle
almost breathing
the raw, agonizing
air
till a wave
pulls it back blind into the triumphant
sea.
—Adrienne Rich
Table of Contents
Chapter Twenty-One: Kent Kelly
Chapter Twenty-Three: Kent Kelly
Chapter Twenty-Four: Andrew Oh
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Orion Oh
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Orion Oh