Paul Killebrew was born in 1978 in Nashville, Tennessee. He currently resides in Louisiana, where he is a lawyer at Innocence Project New Orleans. His first full-length collection, Flowers, just came out from Canarium Books. Upon Us Paul Killebrew "I think he’s basically a person," said the young waiter to the older one. They were folding a large stack of napkins at one of the restaurant’s empty tables. A plastic trash can lid plunked onto the concrete in the parking lot outside. The older waiter pictured a mass of indiscriminate people half a world away, screaming their brains out. "Could I have a sip of your water?" he asked the younger man. "I just think," said the young waiter, handing over his glass, "you can’t see the painting if you’re in the painting, and I can’t see the painting."