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Sandra Beasley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vocation For six months I dealt Baccarat in a casino. For six months I played Brahms in a…
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“Poem about Math” [by Loren Goodman and Pirooz Kalayeh]
Most of my friends are numbers43, 38, 26, 73, 19Boom—you won the lottery So I have a lot of friends nowMost of whom, as I said, are numbersWhat I really like about numbers Is…
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“Hat Day” [by Mary Jo Salter]
Early 70’s.Beautiful day. On the dormlawn, some guy happy to watch his hat flyoff his head every time heleaps for the Frisbee fears neverthelessgetting bored. “How about ifwe all put on hats?” he calls…
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On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations [by Robert Frost]
You'll wait a long, long time for anything muchTo happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloudAnd the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,Nor…
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My Love Is a Mirror Neuron [by Elizabeth Willis]
Come in, you say while I’m alive, you say my hankering love my hunkered down love in the headlights of the future my love of the garbled soliloquy in the wary fever of my…
