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  • “The Law of Reciprocal Dreaming” [by Mitch Sisskind]

    September 11, 2025

        The Law of Reciprocal Dreaming Of whomsoever you dreamThat person is also dreamingOf you which is called theLaw of reciprocal dreaming. You say, “I dreamed of this person"Or that person but they…

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  • from “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” [by Thomas Gray]

    September 11, 2025

    from "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray: Can storied urn or animated bust          Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,          Or Flatt'ry soothe the…

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  • The guys at the bar talk about Keats’s “Ode to a N\ightingale”

    September 10, 2025

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  • Jane Yeh: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    September 10, 2025

                              ________________________________________________________ Self-Portrait as Psychology          after two paintings by Soheila Sokhanvari The straps on my shoes make an X across…

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  • Name that line!

    September 10, 2025

    "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Name the author and the book:…

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  • “Smoking in Heaven” [by Robert Hass]

    September 10, 2025

    Watching young poets in the early eveningSmoking on the terrace outside the poetry reading,I wondered if there would be a smoking terraceIn heaven. I have a friend, dead now,A Catholic who was unimpressed by…

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