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For P.D.
…who saw an obnoxious slogan which irked her. The easy way to get the ladies supineIs slow and steady, while remaining lupine.‘Tween man and beast there isn’t such a gulf –“A gentleman is just a patient wolf.” Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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Nanowrimo Rules + Encouragment
As our writers group + critique group here in Brooklyn ramps up for Nanowrimo, I wanted to offer Nanowrimo rules and also give you some encouragement for the journey. First the rules: Nanowrimo Rules :: Sign up via Nanowrimo.org Pick a working title and genre after you set up your account Write 1,667 words per…
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Vineland Drive-In
This is the sun for some of us, a still photograph of a whole movie, with the shutter all the way open at first, and closed again at the end, so the brightness of absolute presence confines itself to a host of parallelograms. Several screens tessellate along the horizon in the dark. White on white,…
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The Park
“I don’t come here often.” The birds are light-dappledThe bench damp from early morning showers “Our kids go to the same school.” The trees are dripping brightThe air as sweet as candy “I’ve see you there…looking sad.”“You should smile more often.”“It looks good on you.”“Let’s set up a date.” A playdate? “No. Well, that too,…
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Greater Reason
No thing on earth but manis complete and wholegiven form and conscienceand soul,made just sofor a greater reasonthan surviving countless season.What other worries itselfwith choice,concerned with wrong or rightor knows that power making day and nightor can even wonderabout seeing beyond its sight? No,no thing on earth but man is manand made just sofor a…
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Chilean Mines
The corps of engineers can only dig between sixty-five and ninety-eight feet a day of the twenty-three hundred feet. All day we make blueprints for an optical illusion. We find the surface area and volume of miniature Ames rooms,and Daniel hands me a cube he made of playing cards, a labyrinth whose floor is the…
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Second Home
You’ll get used to it, honey.No, we can change that.Anything you want. There’s no reason to be sad.It’s just that you have two rooms, now. Well, we can’t get that right now, sweetheart.We can’t go back to Mommy’s house.Not right now. Don’t cry, baby. This is your room, too!I promise you’ll get used to it.Please…
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Eternal Mind
How far down does the sun gowhen the sun each day goes down?How did Earth select its speedfor the speed of its spinning ‘round?How did the stars find their placesof the endless places there were to find?These few questions and infinite morewere answered by the Eternal Mind. Featured Download: If you would like a resource…
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Transformation
I hide the Shaker postcard in the textbook, its speaker with her back to us. Imagine. Every color in the roomthe various colors of hosiery. You have found, grey, the woman, her cloak covering her hair, a photograph in your book,sand, the basket on the bureau. You tell the storywhere her hands are, chiral, reaching,…
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What Pains Await Me
Some places have a certain smellThe gymnasium when I was youngLike tin and sweat – a scent that makesMe anxious and excited A field before a soccer gameFresh grass, and the air of success This courtroom has a smellIt’s the first one I’ve ever been inWhat pains await me on the far sideOf its sense…
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Divine
If not Divine, thenwhat are we?Progress and processfrom some hapless form;some simple thing,some lesser beast,some soulless creature fully leastthat yet still walksin wood or jungle,flies in sky,crawls from hole or swims in sea? What that livesconsiders itself,except the human,to ask, “What made me?”What living that walksor flies or crawls or swimsbegs answers to questions this…
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Roald Dahl’s Tree
It would have taken, you said, at least ten people holding hands to encircle the tree. For each meter or so of circumference, a baobob is supposed to have lived one hundred years, so this tree in Tanzania, with a view of the Indian Ocean, is more than a thousand years old, several feet of…