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On the Last Night of the World (opens the original)
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Thanks to my friends from Pawling Writers Group who listened to an earlier draft of this prose poem and said it should be heard read aloud, that it sounds like a prayer. So I’ve included a little recording for you.<source type="
Sing, Write, Love Like Dolly (opens the original)
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Lee was the swaggering, pickup-driving baritone in Opera Omaha’s resident quartet back in the nineties. I was the soprano. In between snatches of the Toreador Song from Carmen, Lee (pronounced with a thick L) would slip into Garth Brooks or George Strait. One day he asked about my favorite country singer. When I answered Dolly Parton, he said, “Of course! The queen of country coloratura!”Spot on. If Dolly had sung opera, she would have been, like me, a coloratura soprano, the voice type that spr
Thou Mayest Say No to God (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowWarmest welcome if you’re new around here, and thanks to the rest of you for sticking with me through——too many weeks away.This summer my thoughts and memories have drifted along with the hazes of steam lifting off hot asphalt and lakes, smoke-obscured skies, and late summer rains that have followed me from New York to Tennessee and Georgia and back again.My parents celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary in Banning Mills, Georgia surrounded by
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