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12/30
Psych(e) Study A group of 70-year-old men, asked to pretendthey were forty years younger,found their shoulders to be wider,their hearing and vision improved,their gnarled fingers smoothedlong and agile – their bodiesremembering youth so preciselythat time halted, their ages froze,and their minds smiled into the 1950’s,re-becoming the young menwatching black and white television,marveling at the first
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11/30
To My Parents My hands look like yours as they age.The knobs of knuckles and wrists,the veins threading into themselves,the familiar landscapes of skin.A childhood spent reaching for them,finding comfort in their long fingersthat cradled me the way trees did. My mind and legs are also yours,as is their dialogue –the neurotic generator behind our
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10/30
Some Kind of “Why I Write” Poem Yes, I guessI have a lot of feelingsmy friends greet mewith boxes of tissuesin hand – I writemonuments to momentsthat froze me insidethink of my eyesas thawing if it helps– it helps. I guess I thinkof childhood as akind of hibernationthe instinct of burrowingthat lingers beyond womba silence
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9/30
How to Love Your Art Clear out a room in your house.Wipe the windows (there must beseveral), paint the wallsa color with a poetic name,chartreuse or amaranth,something alive.Take your art into it, say,“here you are.I made this for you.” It may take some time,but watch how it transformsthe space, what strange plantsbegin to grow from