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  • Spring is Here [by Glen Hartley]

    April 2, 2020

    Amorous boys caress darling, eager, fabulous girls, having insisted joy keeps love moving near optimum performance, quite rightly, since time undervalues women's x-y zenith.

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  • Plato’s ghost! Gaiety shoots the moon, Paris bans illusion, dismisses mountebanks [by Tracy Danison]

    April 2, 2020

    It's all up in the air for Christina Towle's "Bounce Back" – Photo © Timothée Lejolivet And she'll have fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes the T-bird away(Fun, fun, fun, 'till her daddy…

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  • Larissa Szporluk Reports from Domodossola, Italy

    April 2, 2020

    1 April, Domodossola First to go were the gatherings. With the gatherings, gone was the sound of the gatherings—the voices, the music, the cars, the vespas, mostly the voices. Once in a while, a…

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  • A Flashback to 1970 Spring Training [by Greg Pattenaude]

    March 31, 2020

    The COVID-19 outbreak has delayed the 2020 baseball season that was scheduled to start on March 26.  While baseball should be the least of our worries, it reminded me that the baseball season used…

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  • Sinatra at the Waldorf (1945)

    March 31, 2020

    Tips on Tables – By Robert W. Dana – November 30, 1945 Sinatra Takes Over Wedgewood Room and Wins Crowd Despite His Illness The quality of laryngitis is strained these nights at the Waldorf-Astoria's…

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  • A collaborative plague poem [by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]

    March 29, 2020

    Equinox Pictures of the virus are pretty – like sea creatures or pin-cushioned moons or holograms posing in semi-witty situations beside balls and balloonsglowing with coronas, crowns, halos.Under microscopes, SpongeBob cartoons   look fractal-similar, my own lungs…

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