Dereliction Milkweed Smithereens unarmed Black man—was shot to

unarmed Black man—was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson

unfeeling chaos and destruction wherever it finds itself

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is a searing pas de trois

readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet

Dereliction Milkweed Smithereens unarmed Black man—was shot toGabrielle Octavia Rucker Dereliction, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's debut collection of poetry, moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's "insatiable wandering." With cinematic imagery and formal variation, these poems effortlessly find dream life and myth transforming the daily actions of talking on the phone or finding your reflection in the window. The bracing intimacy of Rucker's