SlowReads
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It was spring when she died. My uncle lived to not see another spring summer fall, to not open a blind. We buried him in the cold.
9:22 AM Dec 23rd
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At my aunt’s funeral, my uncle called my name. That was all.
8:47 PM Dec 21st
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The curtains drawn, the dormers dark and alive with death and my uncle, restrained and unrestrained, working the limits.
7:53 PM Dec 20th
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That my uncle would scream at all hours with his grandchildren downstairs.
7:31 PM Dec 19th
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That my uncle would scream.
9:35 PM Dec 18th
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She spins me half way. Spin me until the mirrors finish and I leave as a tree, tall and cared for, a presence with no face or backside.
8:03 PM Dec 14th
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My black and white hair plays in my shade, a peaceable kingdom of birth and death in the linoleum grass. I live for birth and death.
8:04 PM Dec 13th
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I don’t know how she wakes me, but she holds a big, round mirror behind my head. Behind it, she smiles: a midwife.
11:24 PM Dec 12th
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The barbershop stretches long like a coffin, a final home lined with mirrors and furnishing time for honest reflection.
2:31 AM Dec 12th
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A poem is a tiny, geologically active planet, a slow collision of imagery, sound, meaning and ambiguity. (I love the faults, the geysers.)
3:57 AM Nov 21st
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@ But how can one explain without attempting to persuade another either to take action or to at least change her mind?
10:37 PM Oct 14th
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What's the difference between a “persuasive” and an “expository” essay? Explanation is just a means of persuasion –- a form of it, at most.
8:04 PM Oct 14th
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[Take 5:] When the rain leaves, the trees rain. Drops hit fat as bird shit, pellucid as eggs on a cold skillet.
4:26 AM Aug 22nd
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Threaded replies are a dramatic convention. The playwright writes his lines, but the world hears his dialogue.
12:31 AM Jul 22nd
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Maybe all writing tries to recreate the present of the past, while voice is simply presence.
8:43 PM Jul 13th
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Writing and reading sometimes seem as necessary and as insufficient – and as loving and lonely – as life.
10:50 AM Jun 20th
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God created the heavens for the waters:
the heavens divide the waters and the waters.
10:03 PM Jun 5th
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I like dictionaries. Nobody says, “Have you read this?”
7:18 PM May 31st
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The large, morning, white house swaps sleep and devotions. Sunlight blinks pink in black pines. My cousin sunny-sides eggs and slops grits.
4:48 AM May 27th
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Bleach-gray shutters, blue-gray dawn and the sun in the closet, striped blind beside the sky, rare as a solar eclipse.
8:54 PM May 25th
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