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  • Johnny Angel, How We Love Him and “If Feeling Isn’t In It” [prose by Stacey Lehman, poem by John Brehm]

    December 13, 2019

    For the past four weeks, we’ve been under the rule of Johnny, a twelve-year-old twenty-eight pound Schipperke. David and I have never had a dog together and I haven’t had a dog since childhood.…

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  • Jocelyn Dax (1954-2019) by Stacey Lehman

    December 12, 2019

    My friend Jocelyn Dax died on Monday. Her funeral is today. We met decades ago when a mutual friend suggested that she offer me her extra ticket to the New York City Ballet at…

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  • Great Blurbs de Nos Jours [by Mitch Sisskind]

    December 12, 2019

    Mitch Sisskind's candidates: ". . . an excellent blurb line is, "i put this book in my son's/daughter's suitcase when he/she went of to Harvard/Yale/Berkeley." it shows you have a family, which makes many…

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  • “The Birth of the Blues” on FS’s Birthday

    December 12, 2019

    Note what he does with the word "weird" — DL  

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  • Met Percent: Week Twelve [by Alec Bernstein]

    December 8, 2019

    “mow tall, mow often.”  Met floor plan: Yellow highlighted galleries have been viewed, 11/22/19 I have visited 43 times and viewed all galleries up to 399 (~300 out of ~900) – one-third complete. “The…

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  • Calliope [by Mitch Sisskind]

    December 8, 2019

    When she used the word bullnose to describeThe blunt corner of a marble kitchen counter —From that moment I was in love with Calliope, As I inferred a knowledge of carpentry which,Although I had…

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