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Not A Sonnet

You weigh heavy like a color upon a set of endless tracks. You pin another pocket of resistance – borrowed - from a tin of metal tacks. It’s spring you know where are the cranes? Perching buildings devolving to three...

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Colon Cancer Challenge

What compels a man to run 15K (9.3 miles) in the 32-degree starkness of a March Sunday morning? Is it the search for self? The spirit of competition? Love for his colon and others (and their colons too)? Likely...

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Review: Bon Iver, "For Emma, Forever Ago"

Sometimes, my friends interrupt my life to impose imperatives upon me. This has to be, in a lot ways, what friendship is about. The closest of them will demand (as I probably do too often of them) that I stop...

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Semicolons and Colons (events)

photo courtesy of Benjamin Schmidt TOMORROW!!! I will be reading at Cornelia Street Cafe along with a few other talented folks including Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of several books including The Orchid Thief,...

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