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Anticipation ~ Amy Lowell I have been temperate always, But I am like to be very drunk With your coming. There have been times I feared to walk down the street Lest I should reel with the wine of you, And jerk against my neighbours As they go by. I am parched now, and my […]
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A Reminiscence ~ Richard O. Moore For Kenneth Rexroth, 1950 Held in a late season At a shifting of worlds, In the golden balance of autumn, Out of love and reason We made our peace; Stood still in October In the failing light and sought, Each in the other, ease And release from silence, From […]
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Also found while wandering through San Francisco: a depiction of the cycle of the moon over the entrance to the Embarcadero BART and Muni station. I worked at Embarcadero Center for four years in the early 1990s, and walked down these stairs every weekday. I’ve entered the station countless other times, on errands or […]
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Tricks up its Sleeves ~ Dorothy Walters I think I lost sight of myself years ago, when something happened and I became someone other than what I was. This new personage and I are still getting acquainted. It arrives with tricks up its flowing sleeves, granting me new abilities, unaccustomed gifts. Now I can feel […]
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Wandering through the crowd outside the Ferry Building in San Francisco recently, I scanned the various crafts booths as I walked. Mostly the usual items—jewelry, artwork, clothing, and ceramics. And then—ooh, shiny!—a table with a long glass case containing many knives. So of course I had to stop to look! The artisan is Duckhee Lee […]