Chris Duffy

What do you think makes some people leave their hometowns and some people stay?

Next, we headed to one of Hanif's favorite parks.

The sun was shining.

The water fountains were flowing.

There were flowers in bloom everywhere.

Okay, so you're both poets and I feel like

Poets and flowers, right?

This is the stereotypical relationship that you're supposed to have.

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

I'm with two poets.

Do what you do.

And there's the poetry.

Oh, there's a flower named poetry.

Yeah.

When you are walking around a place like this that's full of natural beauty...

Is this like right possibility for poetic inspiration?

Or is that not how it works for you?

Speaking of which, as much as we wanted to stay and smell the roses, there was a poetry reading that we had to catch at one of the great local bookstores in town, $2 Radio Headquarters.

Funny enough, it wasn't actually a reading for Hanif, but one that he had put together for Sarah, whose book had just come out, which really hit something home for me.