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Your Monday Blessing: We Wore Red
Others wore blue that day, but we wore red. We gathered in mass at our holy shrine, sang hymns of common praise, cheered us instead of hopeless failure ‘gainst the mill of time. We fought as one: the old, the … Continue reading
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Your Monday blessing: knock knock
The army knocks on my door to say he died bravely. The witnesses knock on my door to say we won’t make it past death, or we will. While I knock on your door, Shams, so that God might dance … Continue reading
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There is a bar in 1970s New York right now
There is a bar in 1970s New York right now where David’s looking outta sight, as always, & John Lennon’s dreaming into his beer. The sunshine has been let out a long time ago, like an tourist from Iowa, staggering … Continue reading
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Your Monday Blessing: let the artists win
I vote we let the artists win the ones covered in paint from their last attempt to smuggle across the beauty of a bowl of fruit the 14-year-old rapper learning to spit throwing life’s chaos on the rhythm wheel uncovering … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing: Photographs
Photographs The faded colours of the old ones Are buried in trunks for a time, Until those trunks are opened, And they, who no longer need the light, Fill a room within us With another’s captured brilliance.
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Your Monday Blessing: How Love Gets Made
How Love Gets Made Our hearts beat time As neurons race to build a bridge To anything outside of itself. A thousand strands hoist sparks to greet the wind. A network of millions carries enough excitement To be aware of … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing: Special Offer
I don’t want to brag, but sometimes I walk the little lane behind the recycling drums, and, if the stars are out at night, I purchase the entire universe in exchange for whatever happens to be in my breast pocket.
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Your Monday Blessing: Tea Done Half Right
A few months ago the British broadsheets, with their typical rapturous national self-criticism, disclosed scientific findings that the British do not know how to make a cup of tea. Researchers from the University of Delving Into Such Things, after extensive … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing: Orison
The word God breathed into existence, to give it shape, was “please”. It is often heard as a command. But in the winds, one hears the sigh of the lover.
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Your Monday Blessing: On Approaching 39
I’ve failed to lose my marbles, or my weight, The twin ballast of my life’s rapid course. The string of pearls, meanwhile, is cast from freight And are spilled, one by one, into their source. The husk of memory is … Continue reading
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