...Krista Benjamin 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Krista Benjamin Serenade Ihe thing I remember most is the boys swimming in the harbor at Port au Prince. As soon our ship docked, they swam out calling quata! quata! A siege...

... glittering onstage, serenading my unrequited, or I am the star of my own music video, men chasing after me in rainy streets but never catching up. On this trip, I am trying to perfect “Part of Your World,” the mermaid’s wish to be human. I remember the summer before...

... fist at them but at the ornamental iron now revealed —​if it were post or picket would I mind as much? I am fenced in, fenced out, pissed off and still the chain-saw serenades me with its roars and pauses, the hummingbirds displaced, distressed, their feverish flights...

..., and serenaded her from under her bedroom window: “Bad, bad, Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town.” I kept singing that same line, accenting the damn like it was my own, and strummed the guitar strings up and down, up and down, until I saw a light come on. The window opened and Jenny...

... Unbeautifulsmeared with eye shadow; serenaded Solomon by The Black Eyed Peas; peopled with Teen People, Glamour, and Divorce Magazine; littered with curlers; mussed with mousse; scented with gels, lotions, potions, perfumes, herbs, and essences...