will the real Aviva Oonroth please stand up?

i thought i would be a novelist by now
but it’s just so hard to make shit up
as my mentor David Donnell aka Krispin
used to suggest
but Krisp why make shit up when my family
reads like a broadway play? call me Ishmael
Aviva
daughter of the creek
ravine shetl racetrack
ICU’s circus bestiary
daughter of the dust

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..iv’e seen things better not to tell..
(Frank Stanford poet 1948-1978)
Winter 2025 ..can i get a witness?..

