Strangers
A man is running hard to catch the bus that just left. It’s picking up speed but he pulls […]
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Can We Know?
After nibbling at his food, our old dog’s sleeping again, breathing heavily. We say, “Well, he’s old. Maybe that’s
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Two from Searching for the Soul
1. In this room, among men of my generation of athletes, gray haired, aging and aged, Joe Kapp, wild man,
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Golf with Bob
A romantic might see lovers’ footprints—two sets, stride by stride, crisscrossing slopes from tree-sheltered tee boxes in morning’s wet grass
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Calisthenics
Hold your own hand. See how you can crinkle or stretch it, add years or pull them off. Mystic
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Fall
Barberry bushes have been trampled all day and some boys along the creek pretending it is the barbed wire of