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Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, Enter Stage Right

06.22.12 Posted in Contributor Series 11, today's words by

Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysEnter Stage RightBy Julie Ellinger HuntYesterday’s date, a somber reminderof your departure,only a bakery white boxremains in the cornerof the fridge. Today, a day older, I’mreminded that it was youwho insisted on red velvet cakewith a single candle.“Do not sing to me this year,” your voice trailed off,while I half-listened, half-wished […]


Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, Found on the Corner of Stadium and Main

06.21.12 Posted in Contributor Series 11, today's words by

Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysFound on the Corner of Stadium and MainBy Monica CrumbackAnd how old? They always askas if there is some answerless vague and better weighed than I don’t know.If there is, then I don’t have it.All I know is you were young, but now your face is turning gray.And your legs are […]


Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, After the Birthday

06.21.12 Posted in Contributor Series 11, words to linger on by

Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysAfter the BirthdayBy Rae SpencerRemember when you sometimes gotExactly what you wanted And it was what you wanted?Remember when the things you wantedWere gettable? And real?Remember six? Or nine?Never at twelve, never at anything teenTwenty happened to discoverHow wanting made the getting betterAnd less likelyThen thirty realized wantingWas another form of […]


Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, Birthdays

06.20.12 Posted in Contributor Series 11, today's words by

Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysBirthdaysBy Harris TobiasMy birthdays stack up like dirty platesAfter a partyPlastic forks and half eaten cakeMake for a tipsy pileAnother year, hooray,I have come this farLog another birthday in the fileIs that one more or one less?Both I guessAnd while I’m glad to have been around to see three scoreAnd tenI can’t […]


Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, An age of Down’s

06.19.12 Posted in Contributor Series 11, today's words by

Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysAn age of Down’sBy John Lavan My son has a marvelous habit of tellingstrangers that this very day is his birthdayand they, confused, can’t fathom the truth but trust his nodding smile, congratulate the rascal on reaching a mighty fine agealthough sometimes they do seem surprised by the notion that a boy […]


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