Randall Mann Biography

This may sound queer,
but in 1985 I held the delicate hands
of Dan White:
I prepared him for burial; by then, Harvey Milk
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This is what he dreams of:
a map of burned land,
a mound of dirt
in the early century's winter.
...

Out of the fog comes a little white bus.
It ferries us south to the technical mouth
of the bay. This is biopharma, Double Helix Way.
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Jealousy. Whispered weather reports.
The lure of the land so strong it prompts
gossip: we chatter like small birds
at the edge of the ocean gray, foaming.
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is only something on which to hang
your long overcoat; the slender snake asleep
in the grass; the umbrella by the door;
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