Life Is a Carnival
Dinner finished, wine in hand, in a vaguely competitive spirit of disclosure, we trail Google Earth’s invisible pervert through the streets of our hometowns, but find them shabbier, or grossly …
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Different Sides
We find ourselves on different sides Of a line that nobody drew Though it all may be one in the higher eye Down here where we live it is two …
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Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza
E.A.: former Israeli Defence Forces soldier who, in August 2010, posted photos of herself smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She labelled her Facebook album “The army… best time …
Read More Bee in Aster
I saw the crisped, curled, and sere beech leaf float from ninety feet above on a serene long voyage across the air and come to the fountain’s sheer falling wall …
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The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
When he was thirty-eight years old, he found himself in a stranger’s basement confronted by a calendar that had stopped dead on the day he was born. He became the …
Read More There’s Where the American Helicopters Landed
Sixtyish now, Ling Quang’s hard look lifts from the gravel where we’ve stopped, the Honda’s kickstand staked to the mountain road’s bit of shoulder, our helmets left like laid eggs …
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Charlie Brown
When the little tree falters and droops pathetically under the weight of that innocent-looking but fatal ornament, and Charlie Brown wails, I’ve killed it, everything I touch gets ruined, I …
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What Was That Poem?
My mother asked me, What was that poem? It was Longfellow’s “My Lost Youth,” I think. The answer was Longfellow, often enough, even though she never liked Evangeline. I talked …
Read More Ossian’s Folly, Black Linn Falls
And thus we came to it, the falls’ vertiginous chain mail welded in spume and walking a cream-coloured column atop black basalt now black now red in the standing wave …
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