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Update – MOVED TO SUBSTACK
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Visceral Understanding
I have an odd pile of books on my desk this morning. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Inconspicuous Consumption: The environmental impact you don’t know you have. How to Love a Country. Langston Hughes – Selected Poems. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Diary. There are nine other books and a rhyming dictionary…
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Stones in Pockets
(Or The Weight of Garments in the Pull of the Stream) When we moved into this house, the old woman was digging turnips from the groundon a Sunday morning. She would cut back the rhododendronswhen they began to block the walkway to her front door. She would sort the decorative stonesblown into the flower beds.…