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If you click on the title of a post, you will be taken to the archive copy of the text, where there are many options:
"Print this post" -- creates a printable screen
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"Related Posts" -- other posts that are in some way similar
"(Visited N times)" -- Started Jan 5, 2010If you click "Add to Favourites", the software sets a cookie on your device. This cookie is quite harmless; however, it saves a list of your favourite posts on this site. Up to 99 of your favourites will appear on your computer only, in the list to the right, on the device that has the cookie. Note that favourites saved on one device will not be favourites on others, and that clearing your cookies will clear that particular device's list.
I am not sure about this, but the favourites list should work, even if you are not a subscriber. I know that it does work for subscribers.
The flow
Category Archives: Sonnets
Sonnet Song — in progress
This is a work in progress, a to-be-tinkered-with revision of “Sonnet Song” — yesterday’s post. There are strange things done in the service of writing a sonnet; For example, the modern idiom doesn’t quite fit: Makes you think a pedantic … Continue reading
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Sonnet Song
The challenge of writing this sonnet is that I prefer free verse, and find that any excursion I take into forms such as the sonnet become canted by the dynamics of the form itself; for example, the inverted syntax of … Continue reading
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Soft Sell
Spring struck again today without the sun Dark cloud, damp wind, gray ice that oozed gray sweat No sense was there that winter would forget To pitch its hoary winds and freeze my bum. I hopped the puddles knowing snow … Continue reading