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Galloping Ghosts
… once—
Or—rather—he saw me–
From high window with basket
And pulley—I lowered gingernuts
To skirls of little caps and bonnets—
Fleeting plumage paused to feed.
And then—the insubstantial voice—“One day—
should you descry the means—
please lower some to me.”
Millicent Caliban gives us these beautiful quatrains. The metrical regularity …
Hunger Pangs
… million people “do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life,” according to the World Food Program. Yet the world currently produces enough food to feed everyone, everywhere. When Jerry and I ask people why they are hungry, their answers rarely describe a shortage of food.
At the dump, a 22-year-old …
Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie
… he continued to analyze his behavior, Miller noticed that he was applying the language of nature to digital phenomena. He would refer, for example, to his “RSS feed landscape.” More troubling was how his observations were materializing not as full thoughts but as brief Tweets—he was thinking in word counts. When he realized he …
Read MoreI Will Love You in the Summertime
… little word for that beak in your bowels—a truth that renders ordinary contentment irrelevant. There are some hungers that only an endless commitment to emptiness can feed, and the only true antidote to the plague of modern despair is an absolute, and perhaps even annihilating, awe. “I asked for wonders instead of happiness, Lord …
Read MoreThe Sound of Silence
… in the 1940s, the struggle was seemingly lost. One day, Sibelius carried a laundry basket filled with his manuscripts into the dining room at Ainola and began feeding the pages into the raging fire in the stove. Aino, who would recall the event after her husband’s death, could confirm the identity of only one …
Read MoreMeditation on a Rat
… female.”
“This one’s a boy,” Luke said, petting the thing behind its pinched ears. “I can tell.”
I let Luke ask the questions about cage size, feeding, cleaning, handling. “So you’re sure,” I said, when we had assembled all the paraphernalia, “you want a pet rat.”
“I’m naming him Skibber,” Luke said …
Under the Lid
… country, he might have become an astronomer, he liked to think. A man who approached a window knowing about the stars instead of the cost per yard of the curtains. All he’d ever done was feed yarn into looms, and now 30 of his employees were waiting for him to scrape the last …
Read MoreThe Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?
… The price is still out of the reach of some families, and the government, it seems to a lot of people, could spare enough free food to feed its own people. It angers people in the movement that it does not; they point to the billions in wheat we send free each year to countries …
Read MoreA Break with Tradition
… ancestry rather than trying to conceal it. It may be that the paradox of our endeavor here is that we are consciously breaking with the tradition that feeds our effort.
Be that as it may, it is good to call attention to Benét—and to another such unsung poet, Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), the source …
Die-Off
… lives. In the summer, from the beach or a boat, you can watch long lines of these birds fly out toward the mouth of the bay to feed and then zoom back to where they nest in a crowded colony on Gull Island, a few rocks sticking out of the bay. The female murre lays …
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