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  • Remembering why

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    Why all the ice cream truck drivers in Philadelphia deal drugs. Why the dog looks like a coke addict with cat litter on her snout. Why the cottonwood blooms gather in clumps by the curbsides like snow. Why our kids… Read More ›

  • Memento

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    We are trying hard to belong here by collecting what we can, to remember where we’ve been.

  • But no urns

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    Mid-morning naps by the window with my hands clasped. The clocks and dog beside me, clouds kneading the sun. This is the way they’d try to make me look, peaceful and serene, flowers by the entryway, a boxful of tissues,… Read More ›

  • PNW

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    We are in the backcountry Lewis and Clark style with natives and small pox and crows the size of canoes.

  • Feed

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    No one uses the dining room for dining, the dining room is a joke.

  • How soon is never

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    It’s sad when an artist you loved so much is still around when you sometimes wish they weren’t. But it’s easier to blame the creep you fell in love with than to take responsibility for your own decisions.

  • Promenade in green

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    In some ways the body was just an instrument, one you could play on a street corner for tips. And he had more body left than mind, more body left than soul.

  • Song for the dragonfly

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    It is the first day of the dragonflies but they won’t last long if my cat has any say in the matter. They have that look of prehistoric wisdom, a proven design. All that existence compressed into just one week… Read More ›

  • Kaleidoscope of pink moons

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    Nick Drake. The wonder of discovery of this lost soul for many of us in the late 90s. Ghostly and withdrawn he passes through like something remarkable outside your window you’re likely to miss.

  • Life after Homeland

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    How could life ever be the same now that we’ve finished eight seasons of this Showtime original featuring Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berensonand Claire Danes as the unpredictable Carrie Mathison.We’ve pored through the evils of this worldforeign and domestic and… Read More ›