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Transport.
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Turning Fifty.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Turning Fifty As if the toppled line of shade had measured well its range, engineered the frail trunk's fall in storm to barely miss cornice and overhang. Was it like this that the first ancients took the reach of wounded strengths, their...

Terpander of Lesbos.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Terpander of Lesbos He must have had some kind of influence, If only that she learned his lyrics once, If only that, when she was still a girl, She gave his double tetrachord a whirl. She must have known a couple of the songs He made to stoke his drunken...

Aurora.(Short story)
June 22, 2008... Atwater spends close to a week in Chicago before calling his daughter. The other occupants of the men's hotel are lifers, penitents, he thinks, and he regards them with scorn. Jaws working at curds of tobacco or gum, they shuffle past in the lobby, with its dim gilt and once-grand balustrade....

The Mutton Village.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... The Mutton Village Yellow ichu grass spreading east to west, railroad tacked across it like a metal stitch. The hand-built brick of the low houses seems almost blue. The village surrounds the train. Girls get on barefoot with baskets. Women ...