Thursday, March 21
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Don't take it personal, they said;
but I did, I took it all quite personal -
the breeze and the river and the color of the fields;
the price of grapefruit and stamps,
the wet hair of women in the rain -
And I cursed what hurt me
and I praised what gave me joy,
the most simple-minded of possible responses.
 - Tony Hoagland
from Personal








  • ". . . as I have said often enough, I write for myself in multiplicate,
    a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the horizon of shimmering deserts."
    - Vladimir Nabokov