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Black as Clouds

Flying at an altitude of 37,000 feet I watch sparkling sequins of cities headphones on listening to David Byrne who’s burning down the house in gray slacks and a buttoned-down

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Odysseus

Something about my being in darkness, in deep quiet, translucent petals of magnolia trees on the pavement, rotating like a planet troubled by gravity shifting from one edge to the

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The Begonia

The Begonia It started with a leaf rescued, or should I say, volunteered from a neighbor’s front yard, waxy green with white spots from beneath a pink umbrella of flowers—

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The Lighthouse

My great aunt with cloudy cataract eyes came to our house and changed rectangles of paper into something else. Snip. Snip. Snip with scissors from our sewing box. She unfolded

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Rachel Carson and Her Successors

One day at lunch-time in San Francisco’s financial district, my co-worker pulled a book from one of the stalls along the Embarcadero and handed it to me. He said, “You

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