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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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no need to write it if you/
live it, conscious of the light, the/
shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.
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152063
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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A young girl wavering between celibacy and punk mother-lust despair came to visit us each night
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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151900
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I remember one time when we played strip poker in the basement of your house on Euclid Avenue, me, Terry, you and Andy. And I remember drinking lots of wine and fixing the deck so that you kept losing and having to take off all your clothes, and still you
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151942
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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151942
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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151954
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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151996
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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151963
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That is a pretty damning statement.
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151931
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While waiting for the water to boil she formulated an excuse that the Saitos would be forced to accept as to why she must drop Isuko as a student. Suddenly the kettle sung out like a soprano, desperate to be silenced.
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151941
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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
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151955
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151921
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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151961
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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151897
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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151894
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These philosophic notions floated in my head for years and eventually helped inspire my pursuit of basic information in contemporary physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology when I was not reading or writing fiction or verse.
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1518911
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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151853
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The new king hunted often. We heard her whirring above, the terrible whirring a forest of—, and she drifted over our city half dangling from the chopper, rifle barrel glinting.
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She has dwindled for the better part of a year, staved off her period, breasts and hips like a warrior. Chestnut strands that danced along candy apple cheeks now surrender to metal pins, her bun severe as an old maid's. Her prominent ears…
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151885
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Elaine and Francesco exited the taxi in front of Elaine Aster Gallery.
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Meanwhile stars continue to surprise...
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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151865
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(the hourglass has not gone digital, oh no,/but these days, silicon is in with the sand)
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151893
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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Listen to chickadees. Join / LinkedIn.
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