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We Are Monica (Acrostic)
… from paper to paper. A tack never Reflects, a tack doesn’t die for truth, Expressing crisis at every new job. Maybe we … wind, song me, Move me where you will, to edge, to roots. O compass in my mouth, take me to Noon, the summer, and send … me from the cold, turn me back to August, those nights I studied the celestial. * Why is writing about her odd? Evening …
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Telling Tales
… about animals and their ways. Those stories had sharp points. Aristotle credits Aesop with defending a corrupt … They no longer bother me. Remove them, and fresh fleas will come.” In other words: Oust the politician, and another will … that last bit never really works: We brave dangers, and we die. We tell our stories, and we pass on. But the stories …
Joan of Dreams
… her leg, the withering of her flesh under the cast. She readied herself for the time she would have to step down to … She dreamed herself as the stone she carried, having come from a volcano as fire, and having been once, eons … on the cliff, heard in its call Ray’s whisper before he died when he had lain under the heavy body of the pickup and …
A Humanist for All Seasons
… succession. The facts were illuminated by a running commentary, concise and witty, and loaded with quotations. I … Color, Human Culture and Cure , and Social Upbuilding . He also invented instruments which he claimed could cure … Babbitt grew up in New York City; after his mother died, he went to live with relatives in Cincinnati, worked …
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Gender Warriors
… be outraged offense. As a therapist I met at a party in San Diego once said, I am “an asshole, but in a really cool … Corps infantry, a milieu where being called a “bitch” was a common unisex greeting, as in “What up, bitch? You ready to … and reading Ford’s book upset me enough that at several points I had to put the book down and ask myself, Why do I …
Scar
… it is beautiful, a hardened flame , a flame that will not die . The ferry moves forward through the night, the pale … I had a friend who lost most of his face before he died, the cancer like ants eating him alive. He wore gauze …
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