Posts Tagged ‘Microuse’

Tom Sleigh: “Hunter-Gatherer”

September 16th, 2009

Tom Sleigh: After the art installation “Hunter-Gatherer,” by Ellen Driscoll.)

1.
Snow falling on the roof falls like it used to do
when freeze and thaw hardened to a satin sheen
and nothing moved in the offing but the lighthouse beam.

And so this morning is the morning of . . .


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Bruce Mccall: Official Guardian Council Dining-Out Guide

September 6th, 2009

Bruce McCall: Official Guardian Council Dining-Out GuideDeath to all patrons of New Sushi City, 567 Blvd. of the Cheap Wash ’n’ Wear Suits. “More of a viperous counter-revolutionary nest than an upscale sushi bar,” pronounces the Tehran After-Breakfast Curfew regarding this foreign-oriented bistro specializing in fish. (Note: Any menu selection could be a . . .


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Bruce Mccall: Official Guardian Council Dining-Out Guide

September 5th, 2009

Bruce McCall: Official Guardian Council Dining-Out GuideDeath to all patrons of New Sushi City, 567 Blvd. of the Cheap Wash ’n’ Wear Suits. “More of a viperous counter-revolutionary nest than an upscale sushi bar,” pronounces the Tehran After-Breakfast Curfew regarding this foreign-oriented bistro specializing in fish. (Note: Any menu selection could be a . . .


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Richard Wilbur: “Flying”

September 4th, 2009

Treetops are not so high
Nor I so low
That I don’t instinctively know
How it would be to fly
 
Through gaps that the wind makes, when
The leaves arouse
And there is a lifting of boughs
That settle and lift again.
 
Whatever my kind may . . .Richard Wilbur:


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Richard Wilbur: “The House”

August 30th, 2009

Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes
For a last look at that white house she knew
In sleep alone, and held no title to,
And had not entered yet, for all her sighs.
What did she tell me of that house of hers?
White gatepost; terrace; fanlight of . . .Richard Wilbur:


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Yoni Brenner: Private Thomas

August 15th, 2009

Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the Supreme Court bench since Feb. 22, 2006. . . .

“I have on many occasions or a number of occasions when things were becoming particularly routine gone down to my basement to watch ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ [Thomas] said. “I can’t tell you why . . .Yoni Brenner: Private Thomas


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