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Three Poems

On this day of rest we require an emblem
proving the harps and small bells determined
to be released from the phonograph are

Two Poems

This descent less decisive but at least a being called away, as the break of pool balls rolling to. Look up, a precise if not intentional direction: Blue Angels are famous in bereft landscapes.

Some Information About the Spartans

Sources say that one evening, at a dinner party, an Athenian woman was showing off one of the new tapestries she’d woven. A Spartan mother who happened to be at that party overheard this woman’s boasting, so she walked over to the tapestry to see what was the fuss. She lifted up the tapestry, put it back down, then called out for her four sons to join her inside.

The Gentle Cosmetics of Light

She had a way of winning people over. If this did not happen quickly there was a danger that her mind, set on rapid success, would thwart her; she would then have displayed her impatience, the interruption of her journey to self-realization would have shown on her face as nervousness and diminished the charm of her appearance.

Now This

In cloud without warning a passenger jet flew head-on into the side of a mountain, all fifty-three aboard perishing. Neither pilot had time to register the change of state, lucky for them. The abrupt near-vertical rock face misled the altimeter according to the black box, perhaps in a freak downdraft, with impact shortly before 5:07 a.m., just pre-dawn.