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Pigeons and Turtledoves
Watch and the world withers before you As you sit and sip. Seats on the peaks Of stool stumps rock. Staying on wheels Lateral that lean? Like we are just sliding Towards the wakes? Towards the streets And their dangerous drakes? Dream about biding Time and the tide. Teach the childer How racist we aren’t.…
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The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh
In keeping with reading The Best Christmas Stories, here is The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh. It’s a short one, but it’s a really interesting philosophical and theological meditation. It’s a fictional piece about what may or may not have gone through the minds of the holy family as, during the second Christmas, they started to deal…
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Man in the High Castle by Dick — Reflections
Well the first round of hosting book club here didn’t work out so great, but I am not one to be defeated easily. We plan to try it again with the Cuckoo’s Calling on December the 23rd, so I hope you can join us and chat through that book in any capacity. As for my own…
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Superlative Degree of Comparison Only
“It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had…
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Dog Walks on Deep Snow
Here’s a video from SNOWPOCALYPSE in which my dog walks on deep snow:
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To Jack Across the Sea
We two met in the one Irish New York pub known and still run by Eires like you. Our talking it turned up tragic: tuition, writers from the thirties rotting. These comic thoughts, these ideas interrupted the oral momentum: translucent roofs true to Spiderman, blurred and iron // blank and fragile— clichés are the things…
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Carol of the Bees for Worldbuilders
And in keeping with the theme of nerdish songs to raise money for Heifer, here’s the Carol of the Bees by a dozen or so of us. If you want to give to little Charlotte and little Maggie’s campaign, go here:
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Ballad of Serenity to Help Two Little Girls Raise a Big Chunk of Change
Here’s my attempt at the Ballad of Serenity to help Charlotte and Maggie raise ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
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Echo is satisfied with her new bed
Echo has made it very clear that her new bed is an acceptable offering to appease her anger: Of course Tara’s picture of echo’s new bed is much prettier.
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Letters to a Young Poet …via Email
The following letters to a young poet grew out of emails sent to a poet. He had recently sent me a three-stanza poem asking for critique. I also, by the end, quote from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: ••• [Young Poet,] There are some really, really good lines in here and obviously the subject matter is hard…
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This Jodi Picoult Book VS. Writing Rules, Revised
Thanks to you guys, my new book is dominating that Jodi Picoult book: Of course, it probably won’t stay above the Jodi Picoult book and Pierce Brown’s work for long. Maybe it has disappeared into the void already. Regardless, it’s always nice to know you guys have my back. Us verses the literary world, guys. Actually,…
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pigeons
“The pigeon,” said Archimedes, “is a kind of Quaker. She dresses in grey. A dutiful child, a constant lover, and a wise parent, she knows, like all philosophers, that the hand of every man is against her. She has learned throughout the centuries to specialize in escape. No pigeon has ever committed an act of…