Sunday, May 31, 2026

1210. The Two Of Us Together And Each Of Us Alone - Yehuda Amichai

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  Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld         “The two of them together and each of them alone”           —from...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

1209. Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges

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  But after all writing poetry is nothing more  than a guided dream and now now advanced age has taught me to resign myself to being Borges.
Saturday, May 09, 2026

1208. As Seen At The Uffizi - Dan Brown -

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  An audience of shepherds  Looks on adoringly As Mary gently bounces The babe upon her knee. To Mary’s side stands Joseph. He isn’t looking...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

1207. Our Two Silences - Anna Swir

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  T ranslated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan Silence flows into me and out of me washing my past away. I am pure alrea...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

1206. A Call - Seamus Heaney

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“Hold on,” she said, “I’ll just run out and get him. The weather here’s so good, he took the chance To do a bit of weeding.” So I sa...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

1205. Thumbprint - Eve Merriam

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  On the pad of my thumb are whorls, whirls, wheels in a unique design: mine alone. What a treasure to own! My own flesh, my own feelings. N...
Monday, February 23, 2026

1204. Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wild

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  An omnibus across the bridge    Crawls like a yellow butterfly,    And, here and there, a passer-by Shows like a little restless midge. Bi...
Monday, February 09, 2026

1203. Years Later - David Palmer Grenell

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In the dusty triangular attic a box of old school books. Inside, a worn volume of poems, a page turned down at the corner- my father and I, ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

1202. Love in A Flat - Lauren K. Alleyne

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  after Dean Young Dean in a story about Coltrane: how one time in a recording, he hit a wrong note— a real clam. In the second take, he hit...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

1201. For Guy Davenport - Wendell Berry

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Within the circles of our lives we dance the circles of the years, the circles of the seasons within the circles of the years, and the cycle...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

1200. At McClure’s Beach, Point Reys National Seashore, California - Ann Fisher-Wirth

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        I would ask my family Wait for a foggy afternoon, late May, after a rainy winter so that all the wildflowers are blooming on the...