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Bio by Kathy Evans - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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Born at midnight, fish were spotted on the ceiling, and language,

Bio Add to anthology × Load audio player Kathy Evans Born at midnight, fish were spotted on the ceiling, and language, all song and curlicues. Mother was a pretty ribbon, father, a painted merry-go-round horse. I hunted arrowheads, watched water-skeeters on the surface of a pond. I had a pet chameleon with half a tail that lived on my windowsill. Somewhat abstract, I loved swimming pools, the deep end, kissing boys on the high school hill, listening to the sound of distant trains in the middle of the night— I walked in hot mud ate pie cherries from a tree above a creek, was baptized for

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