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Permission to Fail [by Lera Auerbach]
Hidden Room • Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach When you struggle to survive, there is simplicity in perspective: You take one breath. Then another. You take one step. Then another. You learn how…
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“That’s What I Thought” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Everybody has a tragic storyAnd I have one of those too. Would you like to hear it For a couple of hours on an Economy class flight to LA?Haha that’s what I thought! Or let’s talk about…
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Tom Disch: “God’s Big Giveaway!”
On July 1, 2008, at 8:27 in the morning, Tom Disch posted this entry under the heading "God's Big Giveaway!" on his "live journal" blog. Under-appreciated to this day, this outstanding poet and writer…
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The Many Golden Bees that Hum Inside My Heart: 3 New Books
[3 Book Recommendations by Dante Di Stefano] The Last OrgasmNin AndrewsEtruscan Press, 2020 In her own words, Nin Andrews’s new collection is a “book of poems of gratitude, admiration, memories, grief, and love.” The…
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Easter Weekend [by George Green]
Been staring out at an empty Seventh Street,but mostly watching Easter weekend Bible movies,and suffering Bible movie passions, now with Debra Pagetin The Ten Commandments. How she yearns for Joshuawhile clinging to the Golden…
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Unscalable [by Lera Auerbach]
Ivan Shishkin's Morning in a Pine Forest & Russian Chocolates On the grand scale of things, it's not always clear what keeps the balance. But things are not scalable. Memories hide in the smallest…
