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A Cat is Just a Cat, but lately I see the cat and feel a love for her that is sharp and unexpected. I look at her (looking at ...

 MacBeth hath murdered vision, for he can see only his reasons, whatever in the world justifies what he has done: in a rainbo...

I just saw the movie “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.” I’d already read all three books of the Steig Larsson trilogy (Girl With the Dragon ...

by Dean Blehert The trick of much poetry is to boobytrap the innocent logic of syntax with nonsense - not a stream of gibberish like ...

This is your daily newspaper-- your whole world is here. Here are the places in the world where you can't go because they are danger...

You stand there in the spring woods, admiring (as one would say politely to the hostess, "Delicious!") a loveliness that once t...

I catch at eyes on the street and they dart away, except once I held too long the eyes of a dapper man, who smiled too winningly. Couns...

Two days ago I drove past a young man writhing on the sidewalk while three men lifted his motorcycle out of a puddle of oil by the curb. ...

Walking ahead of you (it is hard for me to walk at your pace), I worry: What if an alien craft were to beam you up, just you. I'd be...

The trees are gone now - they just weren't practical, what with cereal boxes and CDs sliding off the branches, shopping carts catching...