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Agents of the Anthropocene

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Perhaps they serve/ a God’s twisted will// as they accelerate extinctions

Sorrows Know How to Swim

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That night he dreamed about a duel with toothbrushes....

The Mitzvah

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There were only two students in the sculpture class: an 86 year-old Jewish woman and myself.

Something Else

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Mortality

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The list of things to live for/ shortens with age. The list of regrets/ lengthens.

Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com The Liverpool census in 1851 lists him:Thirteen years old, Irish. Occupation: beggar. Only that. I will do more for him.I will see him in torn jacket and too-short pants singing all day of the fields, the cliffs,…

Hand-Me-Downs

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Steps

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He deplaned Air France flight 9 from JFK to Charles de Gaulle airport at quarter past noon.

How It Is

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When Ryan isn’t around, those of us who know him lament that he peaked at 17, at Disney World.

Made in Japan

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It was in the spring of 1958 when I first arrived in Kobe, Japan, traveling aboard a Norwegian merchant ship, looking to make movies on a limited budget. Superior quality cameras, lenses, and film were being produced in Japan at a fraction of the cost for similar products…

Cranshaw on the Road / Chapel Access

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"Why so ornery?" she asked.

Antigone Détente

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Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.

Snatch X

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...the astonishing discovery...

Shoot the Moon

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Neither of us thought of real winning. We set about brilliant losing, dark angel forms of luck and greed, the desire, the craving, the need to lose so strenuous that one wins; we tied at thirteen.

Late November

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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”

Assiduity Two

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I'm old enough to be her father.

Unseen (a Five-Pointed Star with Four Streaming Lights Coming Out of Its Back Like Mutable Feathers)

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What you see us doing here is not so much, andall we are not being there isn't either. Our kissing mouths may not always be singing, but we are constantly praying for you, and for more rain or less rain, rivers as the situation warrants. Don't…

Four hearts and a vase of jonquils

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Yankees call them daffodils.

The balloon of you

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and the mass exceeds the buoyancy/ and gravity pulls you back,

The Grilled Saint

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When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.

Not Making Heads or Tales

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Something about shadows and last time and driving.

I'll find you - A Dedication to Mathew Paust

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Matt was among those rare creatures; an ideal kind of reader ...

Bliss

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When he got out of sick bay, they moved him into a room with three other alkies. A kid, a tree trimmer, and a Catholic priest.

Fat Man in a Blizzard

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There he was. Minnesota Fats, short and pudgy, jowly and blond-haired.

Life Support

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Here's how it works. The clock in my therapy office ticks off the minutes I get to spend talking with each patient, forty-five in and out, regardless of the amount of distress. Less distress has the option of being shoved out earlier but…

Ants

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I don't know what happened to all the men. Used to wonder if they killed them all.

Maxims (Part 1) Taken from Twitter - Iain James Robb

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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…

Receding Haiku

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love weaves a perforated web between the spikes of longing

Rabusongu

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March

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Crows etc.