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A Hedge of Rubber Trees
2023-12-06The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into trendier hands. She lived, imp...
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A Happy Birthday
2023-12-06This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switc...
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A Hand
2023-12-06A hand is not four fingers and a thumb. Nor is it palm and knuckles, not ligaments or the fat's yellow pillow, not tendons, star of the wristbone,...
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A Grin
2023-12-06Begun under the bed of the poorest shanty It ran through the mattress and suffered the chinches And it ran through the veins of the farmer and his wif...
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A Green Crab's Shell
2023-12-06Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. We cannot k...
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A Grave
2023-12-06Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to yourself, it is human nature to stand in the middle o...
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A Good Year Down
2023-12-06New York will not accept me at this weight & Mothers of the disappeared don‘t come ’round Here anymore. I said you‘re housekeepi...
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A Friend Consigned to Death
2023-12-06"Sleeping so? Thou hast forgotten me, Akhilleus. Never was I uncared for in life but am in death. Accord me burial in all haste: let me pass the ...
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A fillip. A fandango.
2023-12-06The police set about their work so tenderly! Like dolls built to simulate laughter. Like bells, they watch the space between themselves, not us. Its m...
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A Few Moments
2023-12-06The dwarf pine on marsh grounds holds its head up: a dark rag. But what you see is nothing compared to the roots, the widening, secretly groping, deat...