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09 Aug

the minute, Charles Bukowski

“I am always fighting for the next minute,” I tell my wife. then she begins to tell me how mistaken I am. wives have a way of not believing what…

09 Aug

Summer winds

The summer dances around me Giving me space to walk I don’t know which way to turn Listen Head turned to the park to the water to the path Light…

09 Aug

Life, Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest…

09 Aug

Henry David Thoreau, Castle in the Air

I learned this, at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he…

09 Feb

The

Sometimes the wave comes over you and the fight is enjoyable. Even though you don’t win, the fight can be enjoyable. That image stays with me. Something i often forget.

12 Oct

The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson

There was something about her. Her body language.  A kind of aesthetic dignity she never forgot.  She never relaxed away from it, even as a mother.  When I say that…

08 Aug

Salsa and Hotdogs

             When the sun hit the side of her window she would wake quickly. This morning the sound of the canons from the church awoke…

25 Jul

My Neighborhood, Astoria

Where words end   Yum on Steinway   Home Decor, Astoria  Just resting  Such as thing too much pride? Nah.      

13 Jul

Words

I’m not sure that words speak enough Jump into our glasses and spill onto the table Run from one side of the table and down onto the floor Laugh under…

22 Apr

Well, I Love You

“What do you  want me to do?” she asked him. Mimi held onto the side of the couch, the suede thin enough to fit between her fingers. “I just want…

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