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Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
hillary dillary dock monica ran up bill’s sock the clock struck three bill said whee hillary dillary dock
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
