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Waiting for Thieves
No one could say with any certainty who first mentioned the prospect, much less the certainty, of a thief planning to hit our offices, but we had our…
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By Any Other Name
She has one of those faces, which she’s learned to bear with patience if not love, in which people see who and what they want to see, and so she gets it…
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The Poem as Lifehack
An Orphic Cure for What Ails Us
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Don't Let Yourself Drown
Byrn wouldn’t have it any other way, which always strikes people as odd, considering that he is (usually) referring to having only one eye, his right…
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A Ring of Freedom
It’s not like it’s real work; it’s not like he’s toiling at the bottom of the ocean in a pressure suit, in the dark black of some pit or cave.
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The Wolf and Nothing but the Wolf
My neighbor exclaimed that she saw a coyote cross the road as we met walking our dogs—there is culvert and thick woods on either side of it there, and…
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10 Notes En Route to a Short Essay
1. Trying to invent an exception to the rule: we default to what is doable.
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