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“All I Am is Animal” [by Jess Smith]
Don’t meet. Don’t meet my. Don’t meet my eyes. Don’t eye me in my mine. Don’t make. Don’t make me meet you. Don’t we meet that day you made me. Don’t we make something…
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Chick Flick Alert: “Brief Encounter” [by David Lehman]
Jennifer L. Knox's Delirious Hem blog is running people's picks among chick flicks, with brief commentary and a video. Today's choice is Brief Encounter, featuring "Celia Johnson as a respectable middle-class housewife and Trevor…
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Lucky Life — by David St. John
I'm stealing the title of my blog today from Gerry Stern's great poem/book of the same title. It's not simply because I love that book, that poem, and that poet. It because my friend…
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Those Lonely Early Days of January (by Jenny Factor)
Two days ago, right about now, my family and I headed over to Orange Grove Boulevard, a wide, almost leisurely road with green lawns and mountain views that slices through the westmost-half of my…
