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Dear Leonard Cohen
In which a woman chooses an unusual agony uncle to solve the crises of her middle years. —————————————————————————- Dear Leonard Cohen, I had another dream about you last night. This time I was running through an old European city at night, mostly Venice but with bits of Paris nestled into it. Huge uneven flagstones in…
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If Mary Oliver had a toddler
An affectionate homage in which I imagine the celebrated nature poet and ascetic lost in the weeds of early motherhood. ————————————————————————— 1. consider the lego brickmute, neat, yearning six proud buds eagerly seekingthe docking click of another’s inward efflorescencethe greasy kiss of small fingers now biding low, hiding its teethnow sinking rapturously into heel flesh…