Yearly Archives: 2008

reluctant clocks

gremlins have dropped by our snowbound house taking a mad March break from playing havoc with aircraft and fiddled with our clocks quite a picture mad March gremlins using our clocks for violins in some zany orchestra up in the … Continue reading

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philosophy of snow shovelling

In sunny surf he woke to hear the snow: the muffled strident rhythms of machines. He coughed; a spasm tore his chest; he sneezed; yet soon he’d trudge out shoveling in the cold. The trees were puffed in white, each … Continue reading

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On having his words read by strangers

each sound in the house is an alarm speaking to a head stuffed by the garrison of fluids poised like a battalion in defense of access and egress around the anxious brain words flow out of here into the world … Continue reading

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