Magic On the Other Side of This
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Why People Really Have Dogs
People really have dogs so they can talk to themselves without feeling crazy. Take me, for example, cooking scrambled eggs,
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Playground
Happiness is a ball after which we runwherever it rolls, and we push it withour feet when it stops. —Johann Wolfgang
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Morning Haul
Just as, every morning,my grandfather checked his trotlines, throwing out gar and snapping turtles,pulling in bream and catfish and sometimes
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Another City
In the other ending of my brother’s lifethere will not be abandoned train tracks, his shouldersfitted as if in a
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Sarah’s Mother Makes Her Long Dresses of Lace
to hide the wooden brace, slight limp.Darker than inside a locket, more pungent—what wood wouldn’t love to live there, thinks