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Twinkle, Twinkle, Vogel Staar
… blink, aiming its entire soundless self toward the music coming from you. Note how it nods along with your tuneful … in Mozart’s expense book, and no more handwritten melodies; no additional transactions were praised as schön! This … trickery—leading tones that drop away from roots, accidentals that jar the listening mind from its diverted stupor, …
Grading the Lilies
… But no one came; no voice called out, “Ready or not, here I come!” She didn’t see a road but a maze. In the morning, she … unusually quiet for a Saturday night. Flynn wasn’t going to die. There would be no internal bleeding or some such horror … happened. She thought about her lilies, the pale green sepals bulging in the moonlight “Tell them I called to say hi, …
Just Now
… seen a copy of the original sin. The train Of thought becomes lost in the translation. One Tunnel too many. Just now … The mention of a name that sets me back. There is A false courage in numbers. The ties under the train Tracks, …
The Theater of Politics
… the poet claimed to have established the first direct communication between a leader and his people since the age … is linked with the theater.” For the crowd becomes the audience and chorus as well as the instrument of rhetorical … that created the Free State of Fiume. Finally, on December 26th, the Italian cruiser Andrea Doria bombarded …
The Curse of Oil
… restaurants feeding the great American stomach a steady diet of hometown pride and manky coleslaw. A postcard from … asked while we were waiting for one of her screens to come up. “Business or pleasure?” “Business, I suppose,” I … disputes or simple sabotage meant to score political points. In 1999, though, a whopping 497 instances of …
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A Square Meal
… the lookout for the little piece of pasteboard that would complete my collection, add another valence to its scope, or … hadn’t then attained a dominant sense of conscious social commentary (excepting the battlefield photography of Mathew … In them, we see art, craft, and design. The cards can also reanimate destroyed buildings and streets long …
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