Category: reading/writing
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Business 101
They met at the club talked business over lunch shared menu and life stories Raised a glass of scotch full of ice and courage laughed and drank some more Stained clothes and honor agreed to meet next week for another two martini lunch 7-15-20 (working with zeugma as a figure of speech and therefore, literary…
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Monday morning
Monday morning I feel anything is possible I have an entire week ahead of me filled with goals and tasks Monday morning the New Yorker magazine comes With new poems and essays to enjoy subtle cartoons to ponder Monday morning I haven’t made a mistake all week But if I don’t put down my New…
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A poem for a poet
a slim manila envelope from Clemson, SC in Friday’s mail it was expected you bring it in the house and place on a stack of folders and books unopened, because you know what’s inside your wife is home from Pittsburgh and has her laundry on the side porch so you carry Saturday coffee to the…
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Book marks
Yesterday, I straightened stacks of books I’m in the process of reading and I tried to remember where their journey began Bookmarks are a good point of reference Magazine ad inserts mean it was first opened on the porch among last week’s stack of periodicals Receipts, it began at a literary festival or used bookstore…
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Adventures in the Life of an Interrogative Pronoun
Who went looking for meaning found Webster defined ‘who’ as an interrogative pronoun Taking an interrogative approach Who went looking for a synonym wrote ‘w-h-o’ in the query box and kept getting ‘No results found.’ Who tried another thesaurus site the query box kept adding ‘r-e’ after three attempts to type ‘w-h-o’ Who decided an…
My husband's poetry 