Monthly Archives: March 2006

In the Checkout Line

The clerk and I Exchange pleasantries As she passes my groceries by the scanner; Twenty years ago, in fact, I taught her English composition, Was a wonderful teacher She says — isn’t it a terrible spring? She says she can … Continue reading

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The Sonnet Form

I have been told that a sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, and that my “sonnets” are full of iambs and anapaests, and therefore not sonnets. Fair comment. I just find that sticking with iambic pentameter seems to force me … Continue reading

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Breathless

“There’s no gravity on the moon Because there’s no air. It’s air that keeps us stuck to the earth.” — seriously, my university roommate, a science major . . . Night on the river Away from the lights — Sit … Continue reading

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