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LAST BISON GONELAST BISON GONE Ours is the curse of the blighted touch that wilts every green shoot and flower we mean to admire, keep, re-create or improve. New Zealand’s huia bird, prized for her scimitar beak and pleated Victorian petticoat tail, |
The Sky, Full of BirdsBackground chatter, the chink of spoons on china, music piped in. Outside, the sky a medley of soaring birds, on the streets people walking to work, sun shining through the window on my face. I’ve been reading letters from a |
 | Everything Matters: Poetry and the Police DepartmentIt has been bandied about and argued that poetry—or any art for that matter—changes nothing. But everything changes everything, including the least utterance, whether or not we track its significance. Among other many-splendored things—dance, music, painting—poetry is heightened conversation. If
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
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