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Another Hallmark Moment
On Valentine’s, I didn’t think of hearts but of shamrocks, of St. Patrick, the lush and kelly greens of the Irish, the luck that clovers...

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Feb 13, 20231 min read
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Aardvark
And there he is again, on the very first page of every Merriam-Webster, the top of the list of Animalia, the Everest of his kind; Aaron,...

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Feb 13, 20231 min read
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Cassiopeia
On our anniversary, we spend the evening gazing at the stars yet not as lovers do, making wishes on ones that fall, but imagining instead...

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Feb 12, 20231 min read
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The West Coast of Somewhere
As a boy, I saw only sand and sea and stones I pitched with a splash beneath the shifting animal clouds that I envisioned. As a single...

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Feb 12, 20231 min read
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Upon Our Awakening
Upon our awakening, you ask why men want sex first thing in the morning. It was merely a kiss on your arm. You read a tad too much into...

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Feb 12, 20231 min read
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Hildegaard’s Tomb
I offered to go with you, to the mausoleum, thinking you'd said "museum," believing we'd gaze at vases and cracking busts made by the...

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Feb 12, 20231 min read
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Lionel
lays down tracks like he did when he was a kid, predating The Neighborhood of Make Believe— he was already in college by then, getting...

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Feb 11, 20231 min read
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Haight-Ashbury
The temperature in our apartment is always moderate, 20 Celsius, or as our friends in San Francisco call it, 68, Â Â Â Â never too frigid,...

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Feb 11, 20231 min read
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Coda III
That page at the end of my notebook, the one that is blank, is the best poem of mine you’ve ever read, you say to me as I choose which to...

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Feb 11, 20231 min read
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Maybe
When you turned to me and raised your brow, I too made a face. He sauntered past: grey, dishevelled, second-hand clothes still rank with...

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Feb 10, 20231 min read
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Watchful
—for a sculpture by Walter Allward In the hours after dusk, we deduce he plots the path of distant suns, waits unabatedly for Antares to...

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Feb 10, 20231 min read
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A Place Beneath the Water
We drive to the beach the day you’re released from the hospital, the pills afloat in your glass currently a memory taken by tides;  and...

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Feb 10, 20231 min read
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Strings of the Great Depression
In your chair, covered in a shawl to warm you, hot milk by your side, arthritic, gnarled fingers pulling limply on elastics (ones that...

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Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Initials
After you left, I carved our initials into the stump of a fallen tree. I tallied its age before death, thought of its stunted remnant as...

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Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Minus 21 and falling
It is colder than before, the other night I complained of chills, and frost embossed on windowpanes; that which they call cancer eating...

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Feb 9, 20231 min read
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La Belle
La pomme de terre, the potato, the earth apple, its womb a warmth of ground, unable to tempt the eyes of unfallen man. The apple, la...

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Feb 8, 20231 min read
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Preservation
You’ve stopped coming over of late, sensing I’ve crossed some sort of line, saying you want to preserve our friendship, this affection of...

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Feb 8, 20231 min read
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Winter Solstice
Christmas with an ex-lover is spent whenever there’s time to spare, so today I invited you over, with the promise of friendship and...

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Feb 8, 20231 min read
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My lover hates Roy Clark but hasn't heard of Sufjan Stevens
My composition of song, for you, has been rejected, not because the sentiments were bad, or the structure of verse and chorus, but that I...

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Feb 7, 20231 min read
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Miracle
Tonight I will ask you to marry me. You will surely say I am mad, in the British sense of the word, and then laugh off my promise to love...

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Feb 7, 20231 min read
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