Yearly Archives: 2008

assistant

Our cat assistant is learning how to knit perhaps “teaching herself” is more accurate as we have no desire to encourage this perling aspiration for our high-strung cat I used to wonder why that string puzzle was “cat’s cradle” when … Continue reading

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Buds swell over winter’s tired vistas drag horizons to trembling tonguetips sing politic promises of warm pungent green seduce skin, fur, feather and scale startle and hush sky and footfall stifle vision vista and vantage tickle the soft hair on … Continue reading

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In 1943 when I was a kid of exactly six my aunts took my sister and me and my silly-because-I’m-on-a-holiday mother to the amusement park at Ocean City New Jersey USA. Whatever we did cotton candy and salt water toffee … Continue reading

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