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The Misericord

The weaker ones long ago Gave mercy something soft to grip.
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Before the Fall

You use the kind of ink that never dries.

Hurting Home

This was before limes and lemons

Letters from a Pond in Lithuania

Into the pond I toss them: a handful of torn up bits of paper marked with ink. It is a gesture like scattering seed. The first utterance, The last...
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Just Add Egg

As prescribed by Ernest Dichter in 1952: Just add egg To the ready-made cake mix. No fuss. Do it yourself. A contemporary twist? Select free range,...
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Homesick

Over fifty years I reach for you from The high end of a piano keyboard. I Walk my fingers Towards you in a minor key. I pause a little on ebony and...