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The Word of God
Catherine Faber

From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design,
Strike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline…
We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known,
And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone.
Odd, long-vanished ( Read more... )

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Family Legacy

The world so often surprise me. Just yesterday,
I went to piss at a Panera Bread, did it
the usual way: polite knock on the door, locked
it behind me, and washed my hands in the too cold water
by the soap thing that never works right while
the urinal flushed itself, a ( Read more... )

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on a random LJ I found through Beatonna’s

Ginsberg by Julia Vinograd

No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish
earned the right to make any possible mistake
for the rest of his life.
I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him.
It was during the Vietnam war
and he was giving ( Read more... )

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I’ve started getting even more ingrained in the webcomics scene, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that I am simply not realizing my goals. I’ve moved beyond mainstream and am beginning to browse indie webcomics (if such a title even makes sense, as all webcomics are ( Read more... )

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I’ve been tinkering with this poem for a while, but this is the first I’ve put much to paper. Below is an insight to poetic progression, a work in progress. As I write, I play with words and line breaks and regularly scrap an entire idea. This is by no means done, and the final ( Read more... )

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I want to write a poem instead
of a status report, or a weekly update,
or a blog entry. But I don’t have time,
and though I have poems in my head,
I don’t have blog entries. I can’t think
of what to put here, and the things I want to say
to the people who need to hear
have already ( Read more... )

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I haven’t written a poem in over a year… maybe a year and a half. But I have the option of doing either a story (15 pages) or a poem (no length or form requirements) for my Life Stages in Literature class and I, of course, chose a poem. It’s my forté, more so than fiction anyway.

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