I think, therefore iambic pentameter
Thursday, October 31, 2013

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These are the days of dust, the days of sand- paper sack-cloth scratching off the skin of flesh to dust, dust; the days of ash, of burnin...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Teaching of Kindness

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Big families are complicated. With six kids in the family, there are fifteen different sibling relationships to figure out. Which is quite a...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Reduction: On the Art of Self-Medication

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There's drugs for this, I'm told. Trial and error calibrate the dose. There is no eros, only poisoned darts, doting potions and t...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Seven Quick Takes and Four Burning Questions

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One... exhaustion is a way of life. but the burning questions never stop to wait. Two... the laundry pile and questions both multiply wi...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Lectic

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Before you shake the dust, you have to let it touch your beautiful feet. You have to salt the mud with your trickling sweat. You have to d...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Seven Quick Takes and Nine Lives

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One... We have a cat. For now at least. Stray kitty needs a home. It may be us. Two... she's gentle, but the two-year-old is scared ...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Songs in the Dorian Mode

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And pray to God to have mercy upon us And pray that I may forget These matters that with myself I too much discuss Too much explain Because...
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Finding the rhythm and rhyme of the gloriously ordinary.
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