"Sometimes," he said, trimming a bud,
"You have to interfere.
But every other time,
you simply
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Springtime arrives with cherry blossoms falling over the streets of Florence. The shower of rosy petals are tangled in the ruby dawn. A young girl approaches those new hours of daylight in a different ... [+]
I come from a place where kids line the cinderblock walls,
afraid to step on the lava in the
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Forever far away
in a feverish, fiery, eternal expanding cosmos
bathed in deep, dense, viscous
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"There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds."
A. L. T. - In Memoriam
When I was nine years old, I lost a little Superman action figure and Dad told me to
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"Please," the woman said. "Oh, God, someone, please help me."
Her voice was harsh and broke off in places like a staticky, skipping record. I stuffed my left earbud in to drown her out. I'd
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I thought it was a crab apple tree the first year we lived in our house. We let it spill its fruit onto the ground below. The following summer, it sprouted its little green spheres again and I watched ... [+]
Crotchety winter days are on their way
and in the air is an urgency
to start making friends
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I got Jo when I was 23 years old and living in Montana. She was no more than 10 inches and skinny as a twig. Before I adopted her, I wanted to get bitten so that I wouldn't be afraid of my own snake ... [+]
In the Land of Poker Cards,
There lives citizens of fifty four.
Spade, Heart, Tile and
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there's a deep void out there
one that people think they can see
but most times they can't
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The white wall of Mount Sinai's waiting room was hard and smooth against Henry's head. Its unforgiving coldness infiltrated his bristly hair and trickled along the back of his skull and down his ... [+]
