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Gastronomical Perfection [by M. F. K. Fisher]
<< I feel now that gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age,…
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Lilac Season [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Édouard Manet (1832-1883), White Lilac, oil on canvas circa 1882 Every spring my mother would drive to the abandoned mansion on Carlton Road. The long path leading to the front door was shaded by…
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“A Visit” [by David Shapiro]
It was a small family partyAunt Olive who tried to save Dallaspleased after death to have a parknamed after her after deathTerrified I got up off my usual positionand didn't know whether to look…
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Theodore Roethke (on His Birthday) [by David Lehman]
No anthology is as nearly complete as the editor wishes. In the case of The Best American Erotic Poems (2008), permission for the use of several poems was denied. Theodore Roethke's 1958 poem "The…
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The Publisher’s Publisher: Mark Saunders 1967-2019 [poem and tribute by Dean J. Smith]
The Beamfor M.H.S Dome of white goldbetween indigoclouds sabered shaftson blue ridgemark new directions stanchions abovethe diamond–his field illumined precision lasersroam over textsin his study flares of lovefor his wifeand children light of pure…
