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dancing girl press, 2014
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AM Ringwalt is a writer and musician (Anne Malin) from Racine, Wisconsin and currently studying in Boston, Massachusetts. Her words have most recently appeared in The Adroit Journal, Whole Beast Rag and DUM DUM Zine: Punks and Scholars. Ringwalt was a 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts semi-finalist.
IX.
I said it once on Facebook I’ll say it again
a fruit bat has the face of a puppy
wings of an angel
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The unfinished movie:
tiny marble balls
rolling down asphalt
the white chalk drawings
on sidewalks and driveways
&
The incision marks
of childhood on the flesh
of a victorious pursuit
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Been in three caves: KY, WI, MO
Saw bats in the WI one
Was in first grade at the time
my dad with me
and a tour guide who said so fervently: sit on your bottoms in the mud