by Chila Woychik Carlos Veras “We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence…” ― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek We learn to count by number. There were two raccoons and two snakes dead on this three-quarter mile stretch of road these past seven days. I have also noted in the recent past that I wrote more before I had a cell phone, I ate more after my childhood teeth came in, I lived more after I was born. Like the Piraha tribe of Brazi