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November Rose
It's a Jane or Johnny-come-lately, the solitary rose in my garden, a harvest holdover or belated bloom that's risen when the others have...

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Jul 221 min read
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And Then There Was Light
With your hands wrist-deep in the black of loamy soil, you tell me your infant daughter died at break of dawn, on a day that our star...

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Jul 221 min read
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My Dog was Vegetarian, or Fabric Carnations
The flowers in my house are a fraud, marigolds that never wither, forsythia forever fake with vibrant yellow that doesn’t fade, daisies...

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Jul 221 min read
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This is the Reason
I’ve never written you a love letter, as I did for the girls I crushed on in school, vowing a childish forever love. I’ve been told that...

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Jul 221 min read
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Flower Children
It’s hard to believe that crotchety old man and his wife hobbling into the store where I work were once hippies. Their faces creased like...

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Jul 221 min read
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Paris, Ontario
This one is not so Grand as its river, no Seine cutting at its heart or couples arm-in-arm amid je t’aime. We can see the eroding...

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Jul 221 min read
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Collateral Damage
We’re the collateral generation. Don’t mind the dead. They have a habit of getting in the way. It’s the  terrorists we’re after.  Next...

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Jul 211 min read
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Osmosis
The way our cat sleeps on our books has made us appraise osmosis, her head reposed on the cover’s title, her paw outstretched over the...

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Jul 191 min read
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Achilles
The name our friend has chosen for her mastiff is sublime. We wait to hear the inevitable: Achilles, heel! Almost invulnerable, were it...

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Jul 91 min read
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After the Eclipse
It’s there, in our walk around the crescent, the sign a golden diamond:     Blind     Child     Area Weathered from exposure,...

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Jul 91 min read
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Yesterday
All your money won’t another minute buy. Dust in the wind. All we are is dust in the wind. —Kansas We never should have deemed ourselves...

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Jul 31 min read
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The Cone, or Empty Canvas, by Desmond El-Jardin, circa 1946
The gallery forked out millions for this thing. You chuckle, what a waste! But I say there’s no such thing as a blank & vacant canvas—...

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Jul 21 min read
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Another Daring Day on the Parker Freeway
My death  is 60 inches to my right. The tire of a tractor- trailer which is whirling like a drunken potter’s wheel— albeit vertically,...

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Jul 11 min read
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Cat’s Game, or Playing Noughts & Crosses in the Dusk
You tell me tic- tac-toe is boring, will always end in ties, a stale- mate just like us, where nothing has been lost but never won, our...

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Jul 11 min read
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Another Noah, or Shrine of the Libertines
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters under the firmament from the waters above the firmament: and it was so. —Genesis 1:7...

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Jun 301 min read
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Exsanguination
You bought a dozen roses for the thorns, wrapped your palm & fingers round their spikes, the rivulets of rouge— dittoing their corolla of...

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Jun 291 min read
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A Strain for Judas MacLeish
Everyone gasped in church whenever his name was voiced aloud, snubbed him during handshakes, shunned him through their coffee. The kids...

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Jun 271 min read
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Elegy for Hannah Brockman
On the day of your Bat Mitzvah, you twirled beneath the snow, your unpierced tongue extending like an ophidian from a cleft, trans- muted...

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Jun 221 min read
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The Doohickey
The webhost that I use is claiming a widget will not load. Nothing is where it should be because of this power-tripping gizmo. There’s...

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Jun 211 min read
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Warning Signs
You say our survival is dependent on the heeding of warning signs. A tickle in my throat precedes a cough, and the cellist can somehow...

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Jun 102 min read
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