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In another life you would have learned to cook.
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your light is gonna
last me
through the week
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You placed four perfectly crisp, golden-brown quail, still hot from the pan,
onto my plate.
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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500
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Creation, as calculated by Bishop James Ussher, was the night preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC —which means the fall, Eve's fall, the day when she stared into the eyes of the saurian and said, yes, yes, I will, might have been an autumn day.
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He tells me scandalous anecdotes about the neighbors, cheats and priests he knew 88 years before, while the sun races the clouds towards the horizon.
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530
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October Unruly flocks of geese trumpet and bleat, wings beat, hidden in a shroud of mist over still water Newly fallen leaves lay sodden and silent on the stony path, their season spent Cornstalks lean in rusty fields, crepe paper strands fluttering like feathers on…
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Soft rain, small rain, steady rain—
what the shrubs and tangled
young red oak tree need—
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I tickled grass. I wanted to
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had half my head shaved like I lost a bet.
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The wind whispered through tree branches and the underbrush with little fanfare. Trees creaked and moaned in response, their branches rattling together like the bones of a reanimated skeleton's hands. Leaves of all shapes and colors skittered across the ground as if they…
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At the graveyard, the leaves had been raked into loose array....
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Two weeks after All Souls’ Day, he trudges through the overgrown pasture behind the farmhouse, his head bent, intent on his footing, a shovel his walking stick.
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