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all you want (holiday poem 2019)
Merry Christmas, Friends! The first line is a nod to an untitled Rachel McKibbens poem I haven’t been able to get out of my head since I heard it years ago. The rest is…
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love vs. attachment
from The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski (by way of Norman Fischer and Everday Zen) If love is bountiful and endless, why then do we get caught up in scarcity, feeling that we must…
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Rachel Kushner’s ‘common women’
“Did you ever notice that women can seem ‘common,’ while men never do. You won’t ever hear anyone describe a man’s appearance as ‘common.’ The Common Man means the average man. The typical man.…
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the inside of my skin hurts
–The Grace of Mary Traverse, Timberlake WertenbakerThere are so many marvelous lines and stunning passages in this script, I hesitate to pull out one bit to represent. Put this on your reading list. Better…
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five years later, this is what today looks like
Five years ago today I took what has, apparently (and god willing), become my last drink. It was half of a small plastic cup of red wine from a box left over from one…
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obligatory blizzard poem
Stella for Star (first draft) Because you have to say “good morning” or make small talk as you pass the three people out so early with shovels on the morning of a blizzard on…
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follow up: radical fermentation
A link to a recording of my poem “Radical Fermentation,” composed for John Bromberg upon request to appear in his Scranton Fringe Festival production of the same name can now be found on SoundCloud.…
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99 cent pep talk … priceless
Stopped into the Goodwill on the way home from yoga this morning in search of light-colored fabric for a photo backdrop. They had several options but also … this 99 cent plaque. It might…
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