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Memoir, music, book reviews and poetry, mostly.
Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. I've lost track of what number this is. When I rode the bus I wrote a haiku each...
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Friday Poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. Just from newspaper headlines I mistakenly assumed that if there was a Large Hadron...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. Satellite She and I are connected today only by satellite, and this keypad is too...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is around 37/52. Last Requests I would prefer not to die "funny." By this I...
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Company town
The tiny southern West Virginia coal camp of Helen, where I grew up, was once thriving. Its two coal mines supported a population of more...
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Friday poem
The Lake The mist spreads across the early morning lake like a mild rumor. We are here, the dog and I, because we have no other place to...
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The Practical Cogitators
Being a soldier is boring. At least, until it's terrifying. That was the conclusion of Captain Charles P. Curtis, commander of a Navy...
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 33/52 I think. A poem about trying to be in the present moment. The End of...
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The Great Goettge - Part 2
This is the second of two parts about football star Frank Goettge ("GET-chee"). You may want to read last Wednesday's post for context....
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Friday poem
I'm posting an original poem every Friday for a year. This is 32/52 I think. A found poem, from a catalog of types of marble. Some words...
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The Great Goettge - Part 1
Football season two-part special: How the best fullback of his day nearly lost the war The Wednesday essays this week and next are...
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