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When our kids were very young, my wife and I believed it was important to give our children traditions that they could grow up with. One such tradition that we shared each Thanksgiving was to walk down by the cliffs along the ocean. We'd all go, our kids…
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Sitting in the upper last row of Wyatt Hall, Matt stretched his long legs under the fold-up desk top. He looked down past his fellow students' heads to barely catch something Dr. Mock had said. . . .
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He keeps saying it,
babbles the term like he knows what it means
and we wince and interject with mama,
mama,
mama,
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"I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly. "I know how to make you feel good." Such confidence, I say. Prove it.We're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, but not paying attention to it. We sit side-by-side, my leaning into him, and his arm is around me,…
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I have no confidence that you'll complete the task. Shit, you probably don't even understand it in the slightest.
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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Later, your father stared, confused, at the empty spot where the wall paint layers ended in the shape of the old machines. He stopped coming in.
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She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
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148021
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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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148065
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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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I guess you’re gone now
That’s okay
I guess I can live with my own ghosts
I had no idea
What it meant
But now I do
It meant I was standing
At the end of everything
And did not know it
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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On the plains there are no cliffs, no vast mountain ranges to persuade us that we were somewhere above the world. Yearning to escape the pull of the Earth was the big dream of a plains boy…
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Rosey streaks through the city, dragging a flooded umbrella.
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.
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"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
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I haven’t read many of them, these poets
that they speak of – Whitman and his Leaves
Of Grass, Mary Oliver and her wild life
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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THE man in the tent with the stick points to the chart on the wall and says to us all: the stats point to the end of the war by the end of the fall. A just war, not just oil. Just then Allah's shadow comes over the scene. He's here to stiffen his troops with some …
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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The night we broke into Bron-yr-Aur it was too cold to make love. I said I wasn't horny anyway. You put your hand on my forehead: Are you ill?
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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
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The trees would answer with a creak and a crackle.
Fall was near, a rotten apple.
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.
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