Month: May 2020
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Other Little Brother
Boy, you can talk. I hear you over the talking heads on tv newswho aren’t saying anything new anyhownot like…
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Two Covid-19 Poems
1.We keep our distance.We need our space.We work in separate rooms,but we can zoomright up to your face. We are…
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lipstick
the skyan intractable bluepromises nothing buta night of bitter cold i’m not deceivedby the brilliance of fallit’s nothing more than…
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You Will Not
A guidance counselor, parent, or coach,Each utters the same remark, “You will not.”People you believe are beyond reproach,saying to you,…
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Warlocks, Spells and My Mother
The morning sun was already scorching as we stepped off the bus. The heat rose from the cobblestones in steamy,…
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The Falls
Out my old new road, past Rocky’s junkyardoverflowing with rusty cars and barking dogs,round the bend at Ottie’s chicken farm,across…
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Reliquary
Turn left, then right where brick canyons caveInto restaurant rooftops, decaying friezesWhispering city history like Yaxchilan lintels:One crooked alley morphs…
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Warm Nectar
You are the apple I long to bite, apeace luring me past the disquietingdin. I want to taste that sunbeam…
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Book Review: “The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop”
I read this book due to two of my less popular interests: Puritanism and the American Studies/Consensus School scholars. In…