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archive: in perpetual schottische

in perpetual schottishe Tune your pipes and honk ’em up lad and sup on the whiskey we gi’ you for tartan is flying and summer is glad and the blood’s in the tune alleluia O hear the soft swirls of … Continue reading

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Fountain (IBPC Honorable Mention)

I just received word that the most recent draft of “Fountain” (first posted in wordcurrents March 16, 2008) has received an Honorable Mention in the May Interboard Poetry Competition (IBPC). The poem was named Poem of the Week in Wild … Continue reading

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From the Archive: “Green Christmas”

[I wrote this piece when we had a warm, no-snow Christmas in 1965, I think.] Green Christmas ******* — middle of the carol of devotion They felt warm air wash — snow ebb — and they shivered *******— and soon … Continue reading

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