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Another Eclipse The moon absconds again, our planet shearing its light, leaving the pocked and arid plains to darkness as blank as its rocks. The only one of us awake, I stand on our lawn to watch again. Once my father leaned close in a room without light …

… vital and vigorous part in every aspect of the life of his community, is the available figure. His ardent officiousness … more than any other is responsible for lifting Puritan studies to a position of pre-eminence in American … at one point as a “nauseous human being,” although Miller also recognized him as “the greatest intellectual in …

… in a Catholic men’s college run by brothers for whom it was also a monastery, and my best student in freshman English … but an inward, unassertive, sensual delicacy of face and composure of gesture about which not even envy had anything … for another topic; but the superior had said his vow of obedience applied to his lay teachers as well as to his …

… itself, or the fact that an alarming number of people have died under the supervision of both Immigration and Customs … the system with “dirty immigration lawyers” as their accomplices. Meanwhile, legal-aid workers have been inundated … result of this intimacy with suffering, lawyers and paralegals are struggling just to stay in the work. Or worse. In …

… Thought draws the imaginary of the past: a knowledge becoming.                        — Édouard Glissant   The … via the Mississippi River. Nearly half of the lake acres studied in America are too contaminated for swimming, fishing, … rocks, and and and. These bodies of land and water are portals of nature. Those portals are basimbi, or cymbee, …