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getting out of my own way
way too much to go into here, but twice this fall friends have asked me what i'd do if i won a million dollars tomorrow. without hesitating i've said that i'd quit my job and enroll in the mfa program that i deferred for lack of money ( Read more... ) -
the pause at the top of the breath
today my favorite minute ( Read more... ) -
farmer's granddaughter
on veterans' day my grandfather told me ( Read more... ) -
in passing
twenty nine minus a week or so and what
if i have lusted after exactly one man
these past eighteen months? robert pinsky,
just turned sixty eight, read poems aloud
north of here in a church one saturday
morning and from his mouth this:
The sound bk: lips then palate, outward plosive to interior stop.might as well have said, "[frog], don't ( Read more... ) -
someone else's words, again
Adding It Upby Philip Booth ( Read more... ) -
When was the last time it was your job to tell someone their full time-job just became part time?
"Calling him back from layoff ( Read more... ) -
One Good Thing
Every fall for the past several years I've sent an email to our state legislators, reminding them that it's time to start planning for the annual legislator/youth shindig that we throw every winter, and asking them to pick one of three date options ( Read more... ) -
And then I died of shock
Remember July 11th? The date I posted that my Granny called me to announce that she is dating someone ( Read more... )