On February 20, 2003, pyrotechnics at a rock club in West Warwick, RI set off a devastating fire that roared through the crowded club, killing 100 people and injuring hundreds more. Gina Russo was one of the survivors, and she retells her harrowing e
I was born on a tangent--
a lonely preposition
in the midst of concrete names...
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This is me hiding my inner child, a songbird whose voice dripped yolk from chicken coop walls, tinted wheat fields a rolling yellow, split corn leaves into two-part harmony, but most of all sang to the cows. Oh! but they loved how I sang...
Birth Place
Near of Off on Onto,
Accomplishments
~fell in love with my English tongue in 4th grade
~published various poems in various homegrown publications and a few into the larger world
~immersed myself in Peru as a missionary and learned a whole new language-culture
~mastered the art of disappearing and reemerged, gasping, here at AD (Thank you, hermanito!)
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