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Spleen-y Ode to Spring

Imagine wasting spring days jaundiced, brooding, noting how magnolia petals from tree nuptials became fulsome brown slurry, mucilaginous, underfoot slippery  And all Americans, scout-like, ready at any moment, have cars built to transport a casket—their neighbor, the sudden hearse of their president And when … Continue reading

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Birthday/Willing Suspension

  Willing suspension of disbelief – how useful to have jargon at hand when age creeps. Those numbers, no! It’s just accounting of yesterday and tomorrow, for today’s moment is out of time. Enchantment has long been one of my … Continue reading

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