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Night Poem, April 18, 2017

  They walk through the cloudy night The two of them, arm in arm The night is warm No jacket required In and out of the streetlamps, slowly They talk of some day long ago When the children were young … Continue reading

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Afternoon Poem, second verse

‘ We’ve done it all – swept and shoveled Washed and dryed Got up, stood up, zipped up, ponied up, shut up Ran the van like a taxi service. But now, let’s dance We’re in with the in crowd, now … Continue reading

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Night Post, January 8, 2015

The winter evening, just the two of us. You make soup and we find an old movie on netflix and settle on the couch. We leave only one lamp on and now and then a car slides by outside and … Continue reading

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morning poem, september 26, 2015

. WE SHOULD GO DANCING . I put on Sam Cooke and my feet move I don’t even have to think about it. (She was only sixteen. . . ) There is time this morning I’m alone in the house … Continue reading

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Voices III

Our first Christmas together was in 1951.  I’d been working at the plant for eighteen months or so.  Had already got a raise.  We’d been married since June.  What’s that – six months?   We didn’t have much, looking back on … Continue reading

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Afternoon Poem, February 21, 2015

A storm is coming, she says. This one’s no picnic, Wet snow, the heavy stuff It’ll break trees and power lines You know the kind. The roads will be a mess Good thing I went to the store already Good … Continue reading

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Afternoon Poem, November 15, 2014

It was 1962, I was ten years old Somebody in my house had to go to the doctor or something And I was in my aunt’s house On the other side of town Never been there after dark before Never … Continue reading

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What Women Want (Or: Why Men Should Read Jane Austen)

Generation after generation of men have pretended to struggle with the question: “What do women want?”  We talk among ourselves as if it is some unfathomable mystery that we are justified in never figuring out when, in fact, the answer … Continue reading

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