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A CHRISTMAS CAROL In the bleak mid-winter Frosty winds made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away When he comes to [...] EQUINOX I must keep from breaking into the story by force for if I do I will find myself with a war club in my hand and the smoke of grief staggering toward the sun, your nation dead beside you. I keep walking away though it has been an eternity and from each drop of [...] PASSOVER “Art is what remains when the pot is broken.” —Chinese proverb I know we are bound to the earth, and the cracked heart, old terra cotta, surrenders to vine. Listen—I’ve seen wind stir the hair of the dead at Belsen, growing like art from the lacing grass; what is terrible, even, rises. The [...] LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA LONG, too long America, Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only, But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grap- pling with direst fate and recoiling not, And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are, [...] FOR NOTHING Earth a flower A phlox on the steep slopes of light hanging over the vast solid spaces small rotten crystals; salts. Earth a flower by a gulf where a raven flaps by once a glimmer, a color forgotten as all falls away. A flower for nothing; an offer; no taker; Snow-trickle, feldspar, dirt. [...] Like I mentioned a couple of days ago, my birthday is Earth Day … and while I’ve always considered myself to be relatively environmentally conscious, I’m discovering that I’m really not … The Earthday Network has an Ecological Footprint calculator on their website … and discovered that if everyone on the planet lived as I [...] Five more minutes, and I’m off-work for the next four days … must be nice you say? Well … if it weren’t for those damned pesky birthdays (my 41st is on Sunday/Earthday), it would be … instead I get to look forward to being firmly IN my forties; of being a forty-something, instead of just [...] |
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