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Love Wins, We Win
Every day we say, “It’s been a good day,” is a day someone was murdered somewhere in the world. Does this mean we should not celebrate the joys when they come? In response, here is a bit from Jack Gilbert’s “A Brief for the Defense.” You can listen a somewhat muffled recording I made of…
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight
I’ve been doing a little series of “best-of” posts relating to Fatherhood this week. And I’ll be posting a bit more of an original one this week. But I can’t let Fathers Day pass by without sharing this poem again. I talked with my father tonight and our parting words were the same as they…
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Father’s Day Pizza and Poems
Originally posted on David J Bauman: No, there are no commas in that title. It is not a list. Although it could be, now that I think of it. So let’s leave the ambiguity, and the possibility of multiple meaning on the table, shall we? It was Father’s Day on Sunday here in the sunny…
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The 400th Post, and a Poem I Wrote
Originally posted on David J Bauman: Three reasons why being a dad is my favorite thing ever. Assonance, it’s good for the heart as well as the ear. And it’s hard to resist sometimes, even in the title to a post. And this post is number 400. Talk about good for the heart! It seems…
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Poems by Seth Jani
Originally posted on The Blue Hour: In The House Magisterial The immense and stumbling wind Passes through a field Into a house where a portrait Of Christ slides from the wall Onto the azure floorboards. Overhead, the loneliness of childhood Wanders the second floor And dances in the strange, abandoned darkness. Love, which is as…
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Music Monday with Mary Cigarettes
I am out the door in just a few minutes with the youngest of my three incredible sons. I’ve been pretty busy lately, mostly in some very good and productive ways (look for an upcoming post about that called, “Where the Heck Did National Poetry Month Go?”), but also in some of those dull and…
