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Justin Boots D. Gilson (bio) Cherry red leather& white stitched floweron The counter, that’s what we call the heel,my brother tells me,’cause if you’re gonna wear girl boots,I want you to knowtheir anatomy. A lesson I’m taught,the younger brother,with the elder’s first paycheck from the Purina plantacross town.He smokes & smells of dog & man coming together—corn gluten cooked down,pig marrow, chicken fat. [End Page 13] D. Gilson D. Gilson is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Incarnate: Notes from an Evangelical Boyhood (University of Georgia) and the cultural memoir Boyfriends (New York University). His other books include Jesus Freak (Bloom-sbury), with Will Stockton, I Will Say This Exactly One Time: Essays (Sibling Rivalry), Brit Lit (Sibling Rivalry), and Catch & Release (2012), winner of the Robin Becker Prize. His work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Poetry, and the Rumpus. Copyright © 2019 University of Nebraska Press
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