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“The Thomas Crown Affair,”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
poetry
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Lilla Cabot Perry,
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Death of an Author
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
Jack Gilbert • Failing and Flying
The moon comes up.
The moon goes down.
This is to inform you
that I didn’t die young.
Age swept past me
but I caught up.
Spring has begun here and each day
brings new birds up from Mexico.
Yesterday I got a call from the outside
world but I said no in thunder.
I was a dog on a short chain
and now there’s no chain
The moon goes down.
This is to inform you
that I didn’t die young.
Age swept past me
but I caught up.
Spring has begun here and each day
brings new birds up from Mexico.
Yesterday I got a call from the outside
world but I said no in thunder.
I was a dog on a short chain
and now there’s no chain
Barking
Contemplating their loss, I could relate to Henry David Thoreau, who, a hundred and seventy years earlier, living not far from where I live now, wrote about mourning the loss of a tree just like mine: A plant which it has taken two centuries to perfect, rising by slow stages into the heavens, has this afternoon ceased to exist . . . Why does not th
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
she was little; hepaticas, trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit.