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  • Encyclopedia Kid
  • Cody Ernst (bio)

There is nothing to pray for. No parents float awaywith a family fortune. Lemongrass, on the lawn,tangles an umbrella. Birds eat. Holidays are wonderful,though not as gay as in the albums. Stalactites and stalagmitesgrow. Beneath us, in aquifers, who knows what there is?But I’m smart. I can knot my shoes. I light a fuse and run away.Aliens have not been sighted in my town, but fifty miles westthree farmers disappeared. For what? What could we pray for?There are moments of saddening kindness, psychic momentswhen Mom and Dad unite, and moments when I’m crystalbeing crushed by a horse. [End Page 336]

Cody Ernst

CODY ERNST’s works have appeared in and are forthcoming in Witness, Forklift: Ohio, The Minnesota Review and elsewhere. He has an MFA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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