“One can live without having survived.” Carolyn Forche     “You’ve been living in a dream world.” –Morpheus, to Neo; The Matrix   I didn’t survive the second birth certificate. They killed me with official typeface and fresh signatures. Now, I live—shadowed within a new name. The un-memory of my only bottle feeding by my…

photo by michael baumann, flickr     starlight listening to the frogs croaking   Revolutionary Hudson river The Dutch named your greatest width Tappan Zee. Your waters ever a generous giver, bearing fish and trade goods down to the sea. How many shots Red Coats and Patriots trade along your vast and everstretching shore? How many…