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voice

Thoughts on the death of Kate McGarrigle. (#1035) Continue reading

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poet warrior

Seems obscene, the thought of a poet fighting: John McCrae, obscenely, in Flanders, writing caught in ink obscenity’s final purpose writing in Flanders. Moderns scoff at poets and when they do they think of silly newspaper verse and drivel flowing … Continue reading

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Metcalfe

here’s the thing: I knew only the edges of the man to others went the task of knowing him yet here I am writing of his life and death stewing in my ignorance so you get this form of ignorance … Continue reading

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