What Has a Secret Life
Glenn Ingersoll
found in the Berkeley Public Library online catalog
according to Brian Lynch: pets
according to David Grubin: the brain
according to Sylvia Tara: fat
according to Gina Prince-Bythewood: bees
according to Laurence Pringle: the red fox
according to Susan L. Prescott and Alan C. Logan: your microbiome
according to Mariano Sigman: the mind
according to Jack Viertel: the American musical
according to Anthony D. Fredericks: clams
according to James W. Pennebaker: pronouns
according to Erica McAlister: flies
according to Sue Monk Kidd: bees
according to Kira Vermond: money
according to Przemyslaw Wechterowicz: a tiger
according to Kenneth Libbrecht: a snowflake
according to Isabel Coixet: words
according to Kat Duff: sleep
according to Dawn Raffel: objects
according to Sarah K: a submissive
according to Roberto Poli: musical notation
according to Trevor Corson: lobsters
according to A. Peter Klimley: sharks
according to Steve Biddulph: men
according to Hannah Holmes: dust
according to Victoria Nelson: puppets
according to Carl Jones: the mother
according to Thomas Verny: the unborn child
according to Misty Evans: cranberry sauce
according to Alan D. Eames: beer
according to Kory Stamper: dictionaries
according to Eve Ensler: girls around the world
according to Richard Fortey: a natural history museum
according to Mandy Aftel: scent
according to Josie Iselin: seaweed
according to Keith Houston: punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks
according to Clare Longrigg: women in the mob
according to Fiona Giles: breasts
according to Susan C. Law: the country house
according to Charles Fishman: water
Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California. Videos of his poetry reading & interview series Clearly Meant can be found on the Berkeley Public Library YouTube channel. Ingersoll's prose poem epic, Thousand, is available from bookshop.org and as an ebook from Smashwords. Autobiography of a Book is forthcoming in late 2023 from AC Books. His poem "Personal Testimony" was given a Special Mention in the 2022 Pushcart Prize anthology. He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Poems have recently appeared in Thieving Magpie, Furious Gazelle, and Trash Panda. http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com http://dareiread.blogspot.com
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