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Hackberry
Last night I laid my hands on the elephant skin of the oldest tree in my yard, a hackberry that shaded this house… More.
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Attica
My teacher told me to write about things I knew so I wrote about riding that horse through the hills south of Attica… More.
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Songbirds at 4 a.m.
They sing in the dark and who knows why, the moonless night still far from over, you listen for the call of the… More.
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Grand Piano
The world sat down at the grand piano and played the song I wrote all those years ago when I thought I was… More.
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The Storytellers
They told me in school that an oral tradition was primitive, left to the lesser ones doomed to be conquered, absorbed and assimilated,… More.
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Manta Ray
The soft white belly of the oceanic manta ray looks like the sky from below, did you know? I learned it today from… More.
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Venus in Transit
The newest of new moons was a mere suggestion in the dark when you stepped out last night to see the bright orb… More.
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Montezuma’s Revenge
Oh but you don’t understand at all he said you will soon but not nearly soon enough the third reich only needed three… More.
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How to Write a Letter
My handwriting is interesting to look at and often indecipherable says my friend Helen to whom I write a letter on occasion, when… More.
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Brethren
The beams in this house stood brethren in the hardwood forest co-mingled with the living and the dead they were tall until they… More.
