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Culture Lesson

Posted on February 19, 2012 by robchristopher

Naturally, since I’m going to Paris for the first time in more than ten years soon, I’ve been thinking about my last trip there. And digging through stuff that’s buried in my computer. Here’s something I wrote back then.   … Continue reading →

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A poem from the archives: HOLLYWOOD

Posted on July 31, 2011 by robchristopher

HOLLYWOOD   heavy verbs like a rocky coast, slowly shedding into the ocean                                                   wet pronouns                             sand of adjectives scattered on the side of the road, a small world devouring the motorists why write well? buy what you need to achieve                    … Continue reading →

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Unusually Bright

Posted on March 5, 2011 by robchristopher

UNUSUALLY BRIGHT snow falls like tracer bullets smoking gun radiator car grilled cheese greasy crumb fingernail reflections I’m enthralled by the rumbling stick of incense shaken by the baffling train an automobile hissing in the bright wind strewn remains of … Continue reading →

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A poem I wrote on Thanksgiving Day, 2001

Posted on November 25, 2010 by robchristopher

HOLY CORNER Edinburgh. The quality of light—the four o’clock honeycomb candle wax tissue paper beam saturating every pore in the street, every rivulet of every brick, that four o’clock perpetual sunset each hour. Light falling on jet black hair. Stepping … Continue reading →

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