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All about choices.
Tonight I watched a summer monsoon slash the Catalina Mountains with spectacular
lightning. I left the East Coast 30 years ago, never to return, never to live in such cities
ever again. The land I stood on tonight has never been developed, pristine, the way it was made.
Hard to feel the whiplash out here.
And when I go inside, I read Elizabeth Bishop, Andrew Hudgins, August Kleinzahler, Les Murray.
All about choices.................
City of Three Presidents, why that's an interesting way to describe Charlottesville. Is suspense-writing your expertise? I mean here I am, hoping to learn more about Wordsworth, admiring your use of alliteration (actually the word whiplash stood well on its own, you barely needed to tie all those w's together), and moved by your trust that lawyers won't nail you by your online confession.
But you leave me hanging on octave and sestet? What's more important poetry or poetry?!! Don't get me wrong, ever since John Lundberg revealed the mystery of iambic pentameter, throwing in tercet for good measure...I've been perfectly content. Perfectly.
And you're going to go tossing eights and sixes around like it's no big deal? I can do the research alone, don't get me wrong, but wouldn't it be so much more fun for everyone if you shared what you know? Afterall, you ARE the expert.
I left Manhattan for the first time in months recently for a little vacation in Lake George, NY. Just breathing the fresh air and looking at the surrounding beauty (and some wicked jet skiiing) refreshed me for another few months of NYC intensity. Your article reminds me that I'm due for another break very soon!
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