At one point he writes, “I’m done with, by the way, / the whole concept of soul.” He insists, “I’m a licked Christian.” And yet in his final poem, “Epilogue,” he writes: The more I feel the more I ...

Eve got off the bus in tears the day her third grade teacherscolded her for using a hankie. “It’s not sanitary,” she said.Miss Pauley had no notion of what a handkerchief means to us:reusable tissue, ...