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Buying Time
You can buy time online now, who knew? Arriving on my birthday, I unpack it, watch it, touch it, sleep on it, re-re-read the Proto-Germanic users…
Sep 30
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The Hug
Holy shit, him here he comes, he wants to hug, heaven help me, arms flung wide, wings of a raptor. Behold incipience blowsily bloom to denouement like a…
Sep 23
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Happiness at the Door
I intercepted happiness at the door: We’re booked solid, je suis désolé! beside myself. We do so cherish your lively patronage....any other day. Crises…
Sep 9
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Jesus' Pour
Sunday morning while taking a leak I got to thinking about our trip to Europe on the Holland-America ocean liner SS Maasdam, February 1956: my…
Sep 3
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Sacramental
The sommelier pours almost no wine into the man's wineglass. The man lifts the glass to his nose inhaling once, deeply, and once again. Eyelids flutter…
Aug 25
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Rothschild's Violin
Bright blue day, warm enough sun. I'm in my back yard chaise-longue soaking in the rays of early May and reading Chekhov's short stories. Life is good…
Aug 20
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Unbelievable
1. A little lump of ice, a nothing, it would melt on your fingertip. The sperm was Irish the egg Filipino. And then this icelump became a baby I can…
Aug 13
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T.S. Eliot (a remembrance)
Before there was a Springsteen T.S. Eliot was The Boss. We tried to understand him till our eyes would not uncross. When T. was young he etherized…
Aug 4
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Metamorphosis
ohohohwonderfulwonderfulwow pleasepleaseplease Yearning with every bone in her skeleton (it looks like yearning, but how would we know?) tapdancing on…
Jul 29
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The Procrastinator
The cheek, in need of a shave, reclines in the palm of a hand propped by a forearm whose elbow stands on the easy chair arm. Meanwhile, arm two…
Jul 23
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My Mother Demonstrates How to Coil a Rope
Pick an end. Lay it across the U between thumb and forefinger. Make a fist. Crook your arm to a capital L like Rosie the Riveter. Run the rope under…
Jul 15
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Otezla
In a word copacetic: not a cloud in the sky not a care in the world. Four winsome twenty-somethings on a seacoast road in a yellow Mini Cooper top-down…
Jul 7
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Seventh Inning Stretch
The fan-cam gloms on a kid in the stands nonchalantly twerking to the Dropkick Murphys' punk rock Tessie. Boston we love you madly He stops. He groks…
Jun 30
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My Father's Tomatoes
A good tomato could transform him into a rank sensualist. * * *. Elderly Professor N. luuuhhhvvvvvved his DIY tomatoes. He got all but emotional on the…
Jun 24
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The Scribe
At the mouth of the Dneiper, a blustery day. A fat old man in a pink caftan with a wonderful rat's tail mustache, – Taras Bulba – stands at one end of a…
Jun 14
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The Mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale
All and only dirt! the tipsy dominus declaims, dirt and its children. Dirt to fodder for liveststock and slaves, to forests for sills and roof-beams, to…
Jun 8
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