Miriam Bird Greenberg was born in 1980 and grew up in rural Texas. She studied English and studio arts at the University of Pittsburgh, earned an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers, and currently lives in Oakland, CA, where she is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.
In the peach orchard in an old bathtub
the children are standing someone
in a bath of salt water, and one
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I passed three girls killing a goat, shotgun
leaned up against a tree and the entrails
spilling into a coil on the ground. It was hooked
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Long ago I heard footsteps
come to the door, and a man
knocking. We've had an accident
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