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Of News, Reviews, and Shaking the Blues
Shakin’ the Blues: Well, it takes one foot first, doesn’t it. Do you recall the song from that Christmas show of childhood, with young red-headed Santa helping the Warlock King to put “One Foot in Front of the Other?” Sometimes that’s what it takes to shake the blues. When I do not have the energy…
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God, Dad and Cars by David J. Bauman
Originally posted on The Blue Hour: I’m 8 years old, perched on a headlight under the raised hood of our white four-door Chevy, which has somehow stranded us at Uncle Bob’s farm. But this isn’t like the time before, in Canada, when we broke down along a country road, far from home. Across the back…
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Poets Have a Tree Fetish – Reading Aloud Project, Richard Aldington
I keep getting this poet’s name confused in my head with Edwin Arlington Robinson. Richard Aldington–Arlington Robinson, I suppose there is similarity there, especially since it seems Richard Aldington’s middle name just happens to be Edward. But I think the confusion also comes from having read a poem by Robinson back in April here on…
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Sleep by Jeremy Nathan Marks
Originally posted on The Blue Hour: When a man is left to sleep sleep when he feels his appetite for rest wrestle from himself that greater need to lay awake Then he will begin to really think- think not about what is nor what is not but allow sleep to let his body reach For…
