Month: February 2021
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EMILY AS FIVE PAGES OF TEXT IN ONE LOOK
Lake Champlain scuttled awaybehind me when I told Emilyour escape velocity wasn’t enough to leave Ohio behind forever.If I had…
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Neighbors
Mid-nightmy body tantrumsto be heard.The first timeI thought I was dying;I wrote a notethat said onlyI love you so much.Just…
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Blueberry Picking, 1972
Not the berries at first but the bright smell of pine needles warm in the afternoon. Sun awake in the…
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Riverbound
They’re walking through the country store, arm in arm, when Jason Mattlock remarks offhandedly to his girl, Carrie Carson, that…
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From the Dock
from the dock with metal bars, we threw lines into the sunlit lake. lures sankto the biting bottom, as worms…
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The Morning Street of Shanghai
First began as a small fishing village, now a concrete forest, Shanghai canonly hold on to a few things against…
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Book Review: “News of the World”
Long before he was a reader of the news, and decades before he owned a press that printed it, Jefferson…
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