<div class="line">This poem is not about anyone’s hands</div>
<div class="line">holding a book or a steering wheel or winding a clock</div>
<div class="line">or steady as the dark beyond my headlights.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Trees sweep past. Houses are bulk and shadow</div>
<div class="line">except for a light that shows where the kitchen is. People asleep</div>
<div class="line">don’t hear sorrows piling, cumulous, behind the rotting barn.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Even the air has nothing in it. This poem is not</div>
<div class="line">about neighbors, or what it means to stop at a house</div>
<div class="line">because all the lights are on and that means someone’s sick.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Some people driving home know just what’s in the dark:</div>
<div class="line">dogs, coyotes, cows that shift against other cow legs and rumps,</div>
<div class="line">tails winding down like broken metronomes</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">until even the horses are dreaming, uninterrupted green.</div>
<div class="line">In this poem, the wife’s hands let go of everything. Autumn glides by</div>
<div class="line">outside the frost-starred, shatter-starred windshield glass.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">The driveway’s long. The husband stands, watching the stars</div>
<div class="line">fall doubled into the pond. He doesn’t say anything.</div>
<div class="line">He doesn’t see what her arms will carry. The dogs howl.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Some things are nobody’s fault. Get the broom out.</div>
<div class="line">Think of it as a waltz, dance with it, and sweep.</div>


Modern Day Gladiator

Some Long Ago Summer

Not About Anyone’s Hands

<div class="line">“But really, what’s it</div>
<div class="line">really like?” Her friend</div>
<div class="line">twirls the question,</div>
<div class="line">twirls the straw</div>
<div class="line">in her soda topped</div>
<div class="line">with cream and maraschino.</div>
<div class="line">The chrome shines.</div>
<div class="line">The girls shine</div>
<div class="line">in the diner designed</div>
<div class="line">by TV shows that show</div>
<div class="line">the poodle-skirt fifties.</div>
<div class="line">The conversation twirls</div>
<div class="line">around the one girl’s</div>
<div class="line">wedding in two weeks.</div>
<div class="line">Her married friend</div>
<div class="line">scoots her straw around</div>
<div class="line">the bottom of her glass</div>
<div class="line">and says, “It’s like</div>
<div class="line">the shiny wears off,</div>
<div class="line">the clean needs cleaning,</div>
<div class="line">the cream’s still sweet,</div>
<div class="line">the sticky part is where</div>
<div class="line">your fingerprints stay on.”</div>


MicroReviews for Fall 2014

Mars and Venus

Circumspect

Limit result set to products with a specific global product attribute

Limit result set to products with a specific global product attribute term ID (required an assigned attribute).

Limit result set to products with selected global attribute queries.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific category name.

Limit result set to products assigned to a specific group of category IDs.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a specific group of category IDs.

Limit result set to products assigned to a group of specific categories by name.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a group of specific categories by name.

Limit result set to products based on a maximum price.

Limit result set to products based on a minimum price.

What paramater to use to order the objects by.

Use ID to return only children. Use 0 to return only top-level items.

Specify objects whose parent is in an array.

Specify objects whose parent is not in an array.

Limit result set to products with a specific average rating. Must be between 1 and 5

Limit result set to products based on a keyword search.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific shipping class ID.

Limit result set to products with specific SKU(s). Use commas to separate.

Limit result set to products with specific slugs.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific status.

Limit result set to products in stock or out of stock.

Limit result types to types supported by WooGraphQL.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific tag ID.

Limit result set to products assigned to a specific group of tag IDs.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a specific group of tag IDs.

Limit result set to products assigned to a specific group of tags by name.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a specific group of tags by name.

Limit result set with complex set of taxonomy filters.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific type.

Limit result set to products assigned to a group of specific types.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a group of specific types.

Limit result set to products with a specific visibility level.

where

The parent of the node. The parent object can be of various types

parent

The globally unique identifier of the product_variation object.

databaseId

name

date

The local modified time for a post. If a post was recently updated the modified field will change to match the corresponding time.

modified

format

description

Product variation SKU (Stock-keeping unit)

price

regularPrice

salePrice

dateOnSaleFrom

dateOnSaleTo

onSale

status

purchasable

virtual

downloadable

downloads

downloadLimit

downloadExpiry

taxStatus

taxClass

if/how product variation stock is managed

manageStock

stockQuantity

stockStatus

backorders

backordersAllowed

weight

length

width

height

menuOrder

purchaseNote

catalogVisibility

type

image

keysIn

multiple

metaData

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the ProductVariation type

Connection between the Product type and the Product type

preview

Cursor used along with the "first" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

Cursor used along with the "last" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

The number of items to return after the referenced "after" cursor

The number of items to return before the referenced "before" cursor

Unique cache key to be produced when this query is stored in an object cache. Default is 'core'.

Term ID to retrieve child terms of. If multiple taxonomies are passed, $child_of is ignored. Default 0.

True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Default false.

Retrieve terms where the description is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of term ids to exclude. If $include is non-empty, $exclude is ignored. Default empty array.

Array of term ids to exclude along with all of their descendant terms. If $include is non-empty, $exclude_tree is ignored. Default empty array.

Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts. Accepts true or false. Default false

Whether to include terms that have non-empty descendants (even if $hide_empty is set to true). Default true.

Array of term ids to include. Default empty array.

Array of names to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Retrieve terms where the name is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of object IDs. Results will be limited to terms associated with these objects.

Direction the connection should be ordered in

Field(s) to order terms by. Defaults to 'name'.

Whether to pad the quantity of a term's children in the quantity of each term's "count" object variable. Default false.

Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Default empty.

Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Default empty.

Array of slugs to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Array of term taxonomy IDs, to match when querying terms.

Whether to prime meta caches for matched terms. Default true.

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the TermNode type

after

before

first

last

Connection between the Product type and the TermNode type

terms

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the visibleProduct type

Connection between the Product type and the visibleProduct type

visibleProducts

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the shippingClass type

Connection between the Product type and the shippingClass type

Shopping Cart
items

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