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Prelude, Part 4, continued....
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Prelude - Part 3
Prelude- Part 2Turning the first page, you run your fingers down the length of vellum...their tips tracing the faded black ink in its delicate scrolls and arches. The first few paragraphs seem foreign, as if a familiar voice had taken on a tone you could not quite recognize. You know the words as if by heart...the ring of phrase that captures ( Read more... ) -
Prelude - Part 2
Prelude - Part 1“You surely did not think our last encounter would be the only one, did you? Your taste is not one that is easily forgettable…and I have never been a creature to deny what captivates my soul. I have reached out to you countless times over the past two years…and the curtain of the temporal has obscured any hope I had of making ( Read more... ) -
Prelude - Part 1
Is it a trick of the mind…some deeply hidden memory stirring from the past…that makes the village road you walk upon tonight look familiar? Does the lazy yawn of worn brick buildings, burnished a pale rose from years in the sun, bear the stamp of another scene you have frequented…and if so, what little details elude you so that you cannot for ( Read more... ) -
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Am I living up to my reputation? Am I every nasty little demon your narrow little mind imagined and tried to bring to life? You tell me where you want me to draw lines...show me how to connect all the imperfect little dots of your life and render images in blood and ink, how to tease them into a dream of sinful oblivion. Then beg me to breathe them ( Read more... ) -
Memory of Sintra - July 6, 2006
What better endorsement could any man with a wandering muse and heart have than the words of Lord Byron? I am in Sintra, Portugal, this evening...a city described as "the most pleasing in Europe", according to the poet. Perhaps it is the rake in me..perhaps the wanderer or rebel or the inner demon who loves to flaunt the laws of society that causes ( Read more... ) -
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Happy St. Patrick's Day
DUBLIN, Ireland - Lithuanian musicians, drum-beating Punjabis and West African dancers used Dublin's St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday to celebrate their place in a booming Ireland that has become a land of immigrants ( Read more... )
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