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You Came to Hear: rondeau redoubled

Posted on May 5, 2017 by John

The music that you came to hear: a sonic bridge that helps you cross some gulf of time no longer near, or spend as a mere hour’s loss, so in the maelstrom sound’s great fosse you find your sorrows light … Continue reading →

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Conversation with a Mirror

Posted on May 22, 2007 by John

I said, “Before I write another word and send it, helpless, out into the void, I’d like to find a topic less absurd than how the world leaves me only annoyed when I encounter it each passing day; it does … Continue reading →

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Half a Score

Posted on September 3, 2003 by John

This decade slipped by faster than the ones before; the moments made of smaller, finer stuff. The days turn into months, each year turns into four, and often there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to keep in focus … Continue reading →

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Retrospect

Posted on August 16, 2003 by John

How clear the lens of retrospect illuminates the distant past, and brings in focus now, so fast, foolish acts we’d rather neglect. It is not always a kindness, this sharpness of review; one can easily misconstrue an earlier bliss as … Continue reading →

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