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Conversation by the Sea [by Vincent Katz]
What do you feel makes life okay?You are constantly feeling older.The way people speak is changing.You no longer know what they want. What do you mean by that wordRespect? I mean knowing my lifeHas…
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Beth Baruch Joselow: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________ Blacker Pacific Travel this glass canyon on your back, on a sled pulled by dogs blue with fear. As long…
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On “My Life in CIA” by Harry Mathews [by Richard Beard]
From a piece in the TLS shortly after Harry Mathews's death in 2017: <<<|My Life in CIA (2005), set in 1973, is narrated by a character called Harry Mathews, an American Oulipian leading a comfortable life…
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“Rapture” [by Loren Goodman]
The Rabbi’s little sonDecked out in stripesOne leather strapOver the edgeOf the blackLacquer box wrapsThe tefillin IHave taken from myHead as he isWrapped by theStripes on his shirtAs I watchI am raptAs the boyAs…
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Rugged Silence [by Lera Auerbach]
Personal Mythology – Acrylic on Wood Board - by Lera Auerbach I love old rugs. Rugs with animals, flowers, and small people. Prayer rugs and large entrance rugs. Rugs with dragons and monkeys. …
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“Tasman Sonnet’ [by John Tranter]
A, green, the tint of absinthe dripping throughA wad of lawn clippings – E,Chartreuse, colour that only monks can see –I, cloudy violet with sparkling points of blueOr paler, the fresh paint sheen of…
