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The Blackout

The streets are filled with idle, itching hands, their owners on the prowl in vain pursuit of some pastime to fill the vacant hours in darkened rooms enswamped with summer heat. Without their cellphones, TV sets and games, and fast-food … Continue reading

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Through Hurricane Glasses

All these years spent riding the eye of the storm, at the edge of the wind and the rain, ahead of the weather, before it could form, you’d think patterns would make themselves plain. But the nature of the cyclone … Continue reading

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The Crepe Myrtle

To see the stump there in the yard, Its edges barely higher than the grass, You’d never know the tree that made A stand in that spot for so long. You might, when seeing flowered sprouts From that dead trunk, … Continue reading

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