winter on my block only

I used to think
it was just my imagination
more likely impossible
that it got warmer west of 2nd ave
i must have just built up
a sweat on my trans-siberian hike
from east of york
where it’s extra cold
tonight
the smallest snow
a fine powder
almost a sleet.
invisible as the flakes fell
the softest peck on the lips
made a soft white coat
along the edge of [...]

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economic considerations

I don’t regularly pick up the financial times, my spending habits fall outside what I imagine to be the typical consumer profile, and I haven’t made any big budget house/car considerations in my city life. Thus, I am highly unqualifed to analyze our nation’s financial status as of June 2007, but in spite of [...]

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“la revolucion esta en fuego”

The dawn comes blue but hazy. I remove my sunglasses and wipe them repeatedly on my shirt. Only as I reach a hole in the skyline does the rising sun illuminate the particles of pollutants suspended in the air. A soft breeze flicks the dangling flags and adds a shimmer to [...]

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… keep fallin’ on my head

This was the spring rain of a fairy tale, of a happily ever after, of the first kiss of a romantic movie. Each misting rain drop released the smell of earth and nature’s cleansing dew until the ground was consistently a hue darker than before. Then each subsequent drop relased a bud which [...]

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listening

“Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears and with your hands on the steering wheel; listen with the palm of your hand on the gear-shift lever; listen with your feet on the floor boards. Listen to the pounding old jalopy with all your senses;”
This is John Steinbeck’s [...]

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looking like grandma

I was born about a month after my mother’s 25th birthday, so our entire lives have happened a quarter century apart. I can date major events in my mother’s life by subtracting 25 — which year she was in a particular grade, when she visited London, when she spent a summer abroad. When [...]

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rainboots

I didn’t have the childhood wardrobe to wear ridiculously cute and adorable hodge-podge outfits. We had dress up clothes, but we weren’t allowed to wear them out of the house. Our parents made us fantastic halloween costumes and I think I had unique, if not age-inappropriate, set of clothes. Now I [...]

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