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Panem et Circences
Night Before Crystalnacht
By: - Nov 06th, 2016After months of a slash and burn campaign, the most vile in American history, neighbors are gathering for dips and chips to watch election returns. It is less an end than a beginning of four more years of a nation divided and congressional gridlock.
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Pendulum
Slush Puppies
By: - Oct 28th, 2016On Thursdays a group of us meet at Sushi House in North Adams to get our fix. There are Margaritas all around. At just five bucks Joy makes the best in the Berkshires.
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Ranting and Raven
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Protean
It Ain't Me Babe
By: - Oct 26th, 2016Morning thoughts the day after turning seventy six.
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Traffic Stop
Honk If You Love Trump
By: - Oct 13th, 2016Stuck in traffic, such as it is in bucolic North Adams, the angry dude was freaking out. Passing by I found out why.
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Lockup Room Talk
Presidential Sexploits
By: - Oct 13th, 2016Just locker-room talk claims the Donald caught in a raunchy rant. Not action like Bill Clinton and Cheating Hillary his enabling wife. Hey folks fooling around in the Oval Office is nothing new.
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Scars on the Water
Balmy Autumn Day
By: - Oct 09th, 2016With winter approaching enjoying the reprieve of a balmy day at the beach.
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Muckraking
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Chatting
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Juvenalia
Portrait of the Artist
By: - Oct 01st, 2016It was tough to get out of bed on Saturday mornings to attend classes at Mass Art. There was no art or music offered at Boston Latin School. Just tough subjects. But those sessions were a joy that launched a life in the arts.
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Mom for President
From Mayor to Oval Office
By: - Sep 29th, 2016It was in all the papers. Mom was Mayor of Boston for a day. From there it was just a hop, skip and a jump to the Oval Office. Never quite happened but Mom would have been a great President.
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Paisan
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Autodidact
Life in the Fast Lane
By: - Sep 23rd, 2016My friend Jim Jacobs can do just about anything, physical or mental, when he sets his mind to it.
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Redux
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Puppy
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Squat
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Northeast for Three Days
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What Of It
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Lean Harvest
Corn Ending Early
By: - Sep 15th, 2016Local corn comes in early August and runs through frost. Not this year. Heat and drought nixed it. Local farmer is closing down early and calling it quits.
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Two Lennys
Bruce and Bernstein
By: - Sep 12th, 2016During the post war era conservative America struggled to establish a vibrant culture. Two Lennys, Bruce and Bernstein, were in the thick of it but with enormous differences. Both, however, proved to have direct impact on my formative teenage years.
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Gloucester's Song of Milarepa
Excavating Cultural Legacy
By: - Sep 10th, 2016Seeking enlightenment Milarepa was tasked by his master to tunnel through a mountain. Elightenment would be revealed at its other side. Digging is actually its own reward. This describes the process of probing deeply into the richness of Gloucester an endangered polis by the sea.
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Vincent's Crib
Retreat by the Sea
By: - Sep 09th, 2016It was a productive week at the Gloucester Writer's Center. Astrid completed four new artist's books assembled from cutouts of her photographs. Surrounded by the unique library I read deeply into Gloucster and wrote related poems.
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Key to Olson's Maximus
Time, Space and Polis
By: - Sep 08th, 2016From the beginning my the poetry project that began in August, 2014 my consigliore, Robert Henriquez, has emphasized Charles Olson, and his epic Maximus, as a resource and connector. For most it is a complex and daunting work. As he put it "an acquired taste." It takes fortitude to take it on and bend to its monumentality and density. In one of his best poems Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 (Withheld) Robert feels that we have the essence of his intentionality. Imagine my astonishment yesterday to find "Letter # 27" in The World Famous Non Stop Seagull Opera Meets the Fishtones at the Strand an evocative CD by legendary rocker and Gloucester native Willie "Loco" Alexander.
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Many Gloucesters
An End to Great God Cod
By: - Sep 07th, 2016Circumnavigating Cape Ann there are many harbors and inlets each with their own flavor. There is a vast social, political, economic and ethnic spectrum. Initially they came to fish and farm. Now, behind the scenes, speculators are buying up priceless but decrepit waterfront property with its wharves and fish processing plants.
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Gloucester Movie Night
Dating Au Pair
By: - Sep 07th, 2016Making out with the au pair after a night at the movies I parked little Pip on the swing. She was scared of the dark.
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