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Worth
Solomon’s song was longer than a one night stand Call it “devotional” Love is… the slow attainment of disclosure It fortifies the soul It cleanses without displacing more than it tenders You have put off your coat for less And are bereft For it is yet winter O, thou wert as my brother wrestling with […]
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Porch
This year’s first few rhododendrons hover above purple and orange flowers I can’t find in the field guide.
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Sunset, PA
With just paper and pen and begin a conversation It is and how crucial it is that we do something special Especially I could go there during the winter Alongside of descriptions I have spent the details to convince my skepticism Altering our behavior at human presence Your hundreds of excuses Walk over to the […]
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Right After the Title Page
The copyright page of my new book from the UK states, “the right of Michael Heller to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him.” I’m afraid those words are not exactly true. Not only did I not assert anything, neither the name “Michael Heller” nor the words “right” and […]
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08.10.04
We’ve got for you this update: poems from Eric Elshtain, Joseph Massey, & Pam Rehm; prose from Michael Heller; a final Postcard & Picks from Peter O’Leary; photographic bodily variations from Cary Conover; to say nothing — or little — of the new links page. What more could you ask for to better cool these […]
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Peter O’Leary, contributor
Suggested Reading Watership Down, by Richard Adams (HarperPerennial) Spell, by Dan Beachy-Quick (Ahsahta) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly) Nine, by Theodore Enslin (National Poetry Foundation) Lyrical Interference, by Norman Finkelstein (Spuyten Duyvil) Idoru, by William Gibson (Penguin) Some Mariners, by Stacy Syzmaszek (EtherDome) Pastorelles, by John Taggart (Flood Editions) […]
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Port Townsend, WA: 7th-20th Dec. 1999
"In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti." —Moby-Dick [limestone] as long as the last salt seance advances like sea foam [mycelium] the rain & take make shore houses out of beads your coral-free seascape like a public […]