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Outside my Rabbi’s office at The Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia there hung a large photograph of Michelangelo’s sculpture of Moses. Pure white…

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We went the other way. The road not taken. Were we ever clear on what “the way” was that we chose “the other?” Did we…

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When we spell, we are casting. Words are incantations, spells, blessings, curses, predictions, interpretations, conjecture, questions even when they are not in a question. Words…

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G., my best friend and first filmmaking partner, called me one day and said, "I need to talk with you – this afternoon." I was…

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We stand as sentinels in the rain Facing Southeast Spawning Minter Creek Chinook are Deathbound My brother, Jimmy, died at 8:20 PM At midnight we…

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Back in the day, I took days off from exhausting long runs in Broadway shows by renting a house on the Long Island Sound, right…

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I could write about butterflies, but I do not know them, though I have a flittering kind of love. They know, themselves, no other. I…

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We were rolling and tumbling toward our dorm. C Suite in Scott Hall. I was fuckin' drunk. I was dizzy and couldn't stand up. I…

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I have already written this poem More than a million times Over more than a million years. I wrote it when we watched the suave…

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Late in life my husband wrote poetry. At first I thought it amusing, endearing, that he would sit in his leather chair, foolscap tablet propped…

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They are called "10-out-of-12's", referring to the number of hours actually spent on the stage during what is known as Tech Week, when a show…

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The house was modest. It was on a tree lined street with an island in the middle. 814 Pinewood Avenue. It had a very small…

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