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For Stephen: bastard, liar, sweet heart

NamedHe'd spent his life trying to control the names ( Read more... )

For Stephen, thinking in Catalan
A film moment

Untitled fragment from Llibre segon d'EstancesLa vida passa, i l'ull no es cansa d'abocar ( Read more... )

For Stephen
England, Autumn 1803

Silence; anonymous perfection; unstirring air -- never a waft or a movement; silence. The smell of bare boards. A tallboy with its face turned to the wall. ... It was as meaningless as total death, a skull in a dim thicket, the future gone, its past wiped out.

--Post Captain

Sense of Something ComingI am like ( Read more... )

For Stephen in extremis
Mauritius, 1810

Escape Plan

I examine
my skin

searching for
the pore

with EXIT
over it

--Bill Knott

A little fun at Stephen's expense

Thanks to acaciaonnastik for her STEPHEN MATURIN Owner's Manual and goat_song for the image.


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For Stephen and His Bees

‘Stephen,’ he said, ‘how are your bees ( Read more... )

For Stephen of the Maturins and Domanovas

SorryDear parents ( Read more... )

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For Diana: how he loved her wild heart
England, 1802

Sheltered GardenI have had enough ( Read more... )