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I watch the point of the twirling stick
Where you are sleeping, where you will come again.

The intimate reciprocal relation which John Dewey discerned between education and politics is significantly illustrated by the developing situation in Micronesia. This thought came repeatedly to my mind while I was in the Trust Territory of...

Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication.

This early, the small birds’ trudging notes;
Six storeys high, a crane looms
As in graceful blessing…

The water level
comes up when
you throw in
stones, bricks…

Among the Pyros at One of the Biggest Fireworks Competitions in the World

It was just over a hundred years ago that “Through the Looking-Glass,” the second of Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books, was published, yet Carroll’s fantasy adventures into a little girl’s dream worlds have a wider, more responsive audience...

Revisiting Steinbeck’s California.

Heavy blue veins streak across my mother’s legs,
Some of them bunched up into dark lumps at her ankles.