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One Today, Richard Blanco: Inauguration poem

January 22, 2013

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. My face, your … Continue reading One Today, Richard Blanco: Inauguration poem

Claw-footed Tub, Joe Enzweiler

April 21, 2011April 21, 2011

Claw-footed Tub, Joe Enzweiler [The play button doesn’t seem to work for this — click on the blue link.]

And then I will confess

February 9, 2011

And then I will confess everything with a pencil in my hand and a scrap of cheap paper on the table in front of me. This is how you do it, the books tell me. Beg all the words out onto a page. The cheap paper has thin blue lines on it to show me … Continue reading And then I will confess

September « a night kitchen

September 10, 2010

Just published: a September « a night kitchen.