Museum of Summer, 2022

I once freed the horns of a goat from a fence he was caught in. One cold winter night, I housed a dog that was floating around Broadway. In Alaska, after the spill of the Exxon Valdez, I washed oil off the feathers of birds. One summer on Fire Island, a man, tied to a rope, swam out to the man I was married to and me, to rescue us on our raft.

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