Tag: memoir
group name: articleadoption
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March 03, 2008 08:12 AM EST --
The ant
An ant with its provisions,
The shade of rain on anthill.
Looking at it you have learned-
Someone's leftover can save
Lives.
Crushed letters are getting drenched, . . . more
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March 04, 2008 04:18 AM EST --
Dear old comedian
They sit with the pulsing anticipation
Every time the dilapidated
Comedian takes the stage wearing a wry smile.
Rustles of the mice beneath the stage, . . . more
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May 02, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
Sleep
The blissful sleep. The leaves of trees in silent fall.
A pair of eyes in profuse sweating. A fly's buzz.
All that dirt around us is not profaning him.
Watch with thirst, . . . more
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June 01, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I got an email invitation for a May 31st memorial tribute that was going to be held at the Boston University School of Fine Arts for Harold Tovish, a sculptor and former Professor . . . more
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June 15, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
He called me at the office. It was late on Friday and I knew he held out till the last minute, hoping I'd call him instead. I didn't so he felt compelled. When you've engaged in a love affair . . . more
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July 13, 2008 08:37 AM EDT --
A blank call
This road ends in another and she knows
that will somehow amalgamate into
the one now he lives. Sky conjures raindrops.
Hate is what she feels at times. Then again . . . more
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July 08, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
35 minutes, I thought my time would have been better than that. Before RG left we had been running that same distance in 32-33 minutes. We keep track on the kitchen calendar recording our times. Last time . . . more
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August 29, 2007 06:51 AM EDT --
RG called me from Friedrichshof, again, this morning. There's a six hour difference so his day is winding down as mine begins.
"To what do I owe the honor of this call?" I ask, wondering . . . more
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June 01, 2008 01:58 PM EDT --
Last night Bill met Abbi and Teresa for the first time. We had an affable conversation. But talk soon slipped into the political arena. It included some talk about Libya, and the tense situation evolving . . . more
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January 15, 2008 08:04 AM EST --
It was a very cold, uncomfortable train ride from Vienna to Amsterdam. Not surprising I suppose for February, and an overnight ride through the mountains but all my other travel experiences in Europe led . . . more
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September 11, 2007 07:48 AM EDT --
Yesterday, an American tragedy done in a typically American way, made public, broadcast over the TV, viewed by the entire world. A few seconds after take off, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, . . . more
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April 07, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
Moon on the rear view mirror (assassin)
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Moon on the rear view mirror
Chasing the assassin's speeding
Chariot. . . . more
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April 16, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
A coats, not hers
( a poetry that begins at the words I have stolen with permission from the master writer K.c.Klein)
A coat, not hers wraps the little body
Crouched it twists down . . . more
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May 07, 2008 07:36 AM EDT --
Name game (to friend, Alison)
It was not his name really.
He may have any other.
Yet his presence, eloquent,
Delightful and ever green
Shimmers like an imp in space.
It . . . more
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July 12, 2008 11:39 AM EDT --
I just spoke to my my friend, Lois Tarlow. Boston Globe art critic, Robert Taylor, wrote an excellent review of her retrospective at the Brockton Museum and I called to congratulate her. We had a long . . . more
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August 03, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
My friend Robin was expected for dinner. I got home from work and decided to go running to relax a bit before tackling cooking. I asked my daughter, if she wanted to come with me.
"No thanks, . . . more
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July 27, 2007 08:21 AM EDT --
The intensity of my desire to move to Friedrichshof haunts my dream life as well as my waking hours. In this one I have arrived there and immediately slip into daily life. I'm housed with the children, . . . more
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July 28, 2007 05:58 PM EDT --
I'm reading the catalogue from the recent Jonathan Borofsky exhibit at the MFA. My assistant Deb gave it to me as a Christmas gift. She was impressed with his work. So am I. He makes me think of the . . . more
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October 12, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
Dinner is over, An entire day, gone. I'm standing still while everything - the rest of the world - rushes by. As I write this a group of kids, Flo, Robert, Zocki, Luzi and Yvonne are gathered around . . . more
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March 18, 2008 07:52 AM EDT --
It's late. The party was wild, sort-of fun, I think, not sure. With RG sometimes it's hard to tell whether it was a sociological experiment, a performance, or a cruel joke. Perhaps it's the . . . more
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