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  • Across the Wide Missouri

    It’s toward the end of the season

  • Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus | I’m sure some animals negotiate and plea.  I’m sure there’s a hard winter’s compromise | Lou Reed sings “Berlin,” a voice that has in it paradise if paradise was broken

    Another case of sitting still in a room as for chamber music minus

  • Carpe Diem

    You won't live

  • Tool & Shade

    A brush of two minds still

  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze

  • Free Descent

    It seemed I had always been kicking

  • RETURN OF THE HERO

    So they brought in a bird for him,

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Shoulders slouched, neck one step ahead of her body,

  • Rare Moment

    A clear choice

  • “October, and the sun burnishes”

    October, and the sun burnishes the leaves so brightly you

  • Feasts for the Blind | My Dear Menshevik

    That year it rained crows. Birds fell out of the sky in midflight.

  • THINNING THE SPRUCES

    I’ve become ruthless with the spruces