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Streets of Paris: blocks, politics, passages and whatnot
This anecdote is perfectly true. This morning a guy with a white hussar-style mustache and heavy East European accent grabbed my arm as I was passing under a soaring concrete viaduct. Pardon, M’sieur, the hussar…
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Literary Journal Spotlight: Poet Lore [by Abdul Ali]
Publishing poems is a stressful undertaking. All those weeks bleeding into months of waiting. And let's not talk about the stakes in getting published–the validation, the fleeting social media fame, the entries on the…
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Uniqueness proven in Paris! Merry Christmas!
And, you thought, if anyone did, Saint Nicholas would know the unique truth of love. Alas, in Babylon, even he must sometimes lay himself down and analyze. I happened to be paying attention this time.…
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“Becoming a God” [by Thomas Moody]
I am a young man sittingon the end of a bed in aMotel 6 in Pensacola Fl.holding in my hands a maskcarved by a decade of echosof America’s proselytizers. The mask is difficult to…
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“Morning Routine” [by Lily Bowen]
My legs look their thinnestin the mirrored windows of the Bed Bath and Beyond loading dockon W 65th. Employees only, I smile and say good morningto the men smoking their cigarettes out back. Every…
