I hadn't even realized what I had done in the original poems, but yes, I glossed over, and yes, made pretty. But then to ungloss, sort of like a poetic ungloss, I can think of fictional unglossings like Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, but I can't think of a poetic unglossing of that kind of childhood narrative.

barge + -ee → bargee

Stop talking jazz.

In the discourses of archivy and broader discourses which have taken an archival turn in the last two decades, the word ‘archive’ has become invested with multiple meanings.