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Boys Like Terry\n\n\nTerry\u2019s hair was blond like silver, eight years old,\nprivate school in my public school neighborhood,\njust him and his mother, gray stone house, blinds\nalways drawn, came out to play a few times, board\ngames or cards, sarcastic, nothing unfriendly just\nold-ladyish like he was wearing his mother\u2019s clothes, \nthe other kids said he had both a banana and a fruit bowl,\nI tried to relate that to playing doctor with Paula but \ncouldn\u2019t visualize it\u2014side by side?\u2014but it didn\u2019t matter, \nTerry stopped coming out, when I rang the doorbell \nof the gray stone house there was silence and darkness,\nfinally they moved away, Terry and his mother, I couldn\u2019t \nimagine where boys like Terry go, hair blond like silver\n\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Mike Wilson\u2019s<\/strong> work has appeared in magazines including Amsterdam Quarterly, Mud Season Review, The London Reader, The Ocotillo Review<\/em>, and in Mike\u2019s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic<\/em>, (Rabbit House Press, 2020), political poetry for a post-truth world. Mike is a past winner of Kentucky State Poetry Society\u2019s Chaffin\/Kash Prize. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, USA and can be found at mikewilsonwriter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Boys Like Terry Terry\u2019s hair was blond like silver, eight years old, private school in my public school neighborhood, just him and his mother, gray stone house, blinds always drawn, came out to play a few times, board games or cards, sarcastic, nothing unfriendly just old-ladyish like he was wearing his mother\u2019s clothes, the other kids said he had both a banana and a fruit bowl, I tried to relate that to playing doctor with Paula but couldn\u2019t visualize it\u2014side by side?\u2014but it didn\u2019t matter, Terry stopped coming out, when I rang the doorbell of the gray stone house there was silence and darkness, finally they moved away, Terry and his mother, I couldn\u2019t imagine where boys like Terry go, hair blond like silver Mike Wilson\u2019s work has appeared in magazines including Amsterdam Quarterly, Mud Season Review, The London Reader, The Ocotillo Review, and in Mike\u2019s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, (Rabbit House Press, 2020), political poetry for a post-truth world. Mike is a past winner of Kentucky State Poetry Society\u2019s Chaffin\/Kash Prize. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, USA and can be found at mikewilsonwriter.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}