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Trillium by Jeremy Nathan Marks
Originally posted on The Blue Hour: The rain is ending and with everything soaked the wind turns light wrung out fit now for flight At dawn our curtains quiver And through every bird we begin our hearing of a whirl, a roar a sprouting once more of mud flecked Skunk Cabbages Their dirt tickling crown…
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What Comes After Sweet 16?
And no, there is no punch line here. I just wanted to send out a very happy birthday to my youngest boy, The Monkey Prodigy. Today he turns 17. I am really not sure how that happened. I think he was no older than nine just yesterday. And now he’s getting into jazz he says. Very cool.…
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nothing left to lose….
Originally posted on Read Between the Minds: the brown bag prophet watched office workers file out of high-rises and well-dressed professors head to starbucks to meet their favorite mini-skirted lab assistants the glint in his eyes was more than i could resist so i inquired why such pleasure with these observations he took a sip…
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30 “Of My Ego and the Muse”

Well, you can scroll past some commentary and a pretty intense rant to get right to the poetry video if you want, but if you’re feeling feisty, hop right in! The Good, Nothing Really Bad, and the Slightly Ugly of NaPoMo So here we come to the end of another April, dubbed National Poetry Month…
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“Another Dark Lady,” 29 of 30, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
My friend AngryRicky, who’s really not so angry, requested something by Edwin Arlington Robinson. So no more than two hours left in my personal challenge of thirty poetry recordings in thirty days for the month of April, National Poetry Month here in the USA, I bring you “Another Dark Lady.” I cannot say Ricky’s story…
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Radio Interview, Cheating and “Local News”
Okay, so maybe this is cheating, but it’s the wee hours of the last day of Poetry Month and I am only on Day 28 here, and maybe you missed the link to this before. The audio was more than halfway down the page. So instead of a fresh recording I’ll bring you one that…