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David's Blog
Memoir, music, book reviews and poetry, mostly.
New: Earned in Blood audiobook available
The audio version of my father's memoir Earned in Blood: My Journey from Old-Breed Marine to the Most Dangerous Job in America is out now...
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Friday poem
Pilot I dreamed I was the pilot of a small plane brought down by a minor squall over the upper Midwest. And, too, I was a passenger on a...
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Friday poem (repost)
What happens to our old Personal Assistants when a new one comes along? The Death of Siri It started with small things, as these cases...
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Friday Poem
Resolution This year I'm taking a beat, catching my breath, giving it a rest. This is the year I won’t run a marathon, or write that...
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Friday poem
or, Whom's On First? I knew each of them-- he and she-- before they met. They weren’t married yet. This was before she began to go by...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. CEO If I were in charge of this modest sunlight I’d add a bit of orange and slant...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. The distance He was copper, as soft-spoken as any man in our little town. In his...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. I only write a few poems every year. Why I Have Stopped Writing Poetry Dickinson? ...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. Strike I dreamed all my clichés went on strike. No similes and not a single...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. When I rode the bus I wrote a haiku each day. Bus haiku #8 A green shoulder bag...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. Graveyard This late sky is a dismal light for reading these stones, and a century...
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