Tag: prose
member name: Lynn Doiron
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September 06, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
The knife maker didn't start out with a perfect knife. He was a keeper of birds and at that time there were birds that came to be known as "jays" which were kept for their feathers-more . . .
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September 05, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
There is a panther so large that when it walks the cosmos solar spots flare on earth's sun and Mercury winces, grows fractionally smaller until the increase in heat dissipates and that planet can . . .
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November 24, 2008 01:04 PM EST --
The first day was butterflies and asters. The second was given to nuts; there were some mistakes - filberts, though lovely in color and texture were, in the end, a bit tough. The . . .
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November 24, 2008 12:59 PM EST --
A poet is writing a word on a leaf, one word among thousands of words on one leaf among infinite numbers of others. When the pen nib scrapes, the celadon veins are quiet.
They map the . . .
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November 25, 2008 01:42 AM EST --
In the beginning, rope for her meant a way out.
It was long and made of small hairs that fall off the backs of black-and-white cows so that, when all of the hairs were . . .
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July 25, 2009 02:24 PM EDT --
In the process of writing a novel inspired by the life of a woman who died in 1936, what began as one story meant to fill out the true life of a true person who lived recklessly, a dare-devil by all accounts, . . .
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July 29, 2009 04:40 PM EDT --
In my daydream we are riding a train and the tracks are not smooth; the train is not new but from the turn of the last century, perhaps 1920 or 30. Velvet curtains with fringe hang at the windows, . . .
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August 05, 2009 02:49 PM EDT --
The True Life Adventures of Irene in White Tights does not deserve the underline distinction, that long solid line denoting a manuscript has metamorphosed from 8 ½" x 11" letter-scored pages . . .
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July 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
I am thinking of an outer room of dusking pinks and live orchid stems with many buds yet bundled, emergent nubs: cymbidums, green, one perfect bloom opened and tenderly lime, the curve of a child’s . . .
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