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Procrastination poems

Forest In this clearing, batsflutter in sunset circles. I brought my daughter hereas a child. Her echo nowin her brother’s eyes, laughing. fire a fire at the endthe boy’s stick traces letters playing with fire startswith nine years, wood, a fatherlost in a shooting-star night morning she sleeps, her eyeslost…

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Structure, form, and writing like a maniac

Dear Abby, I’ve been struggling with the dissertation thing and only this week got out of thinking about it in terms of a Ph.D.—complete book, professional affirmation, personal achievement, not being a slouch, having completed something in the professional realm, a way of showing “those bastards”—all the baggage you can…

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Here are the good points…Now just a little more sex

Billie, I’m making only slow progress. In part, it’s due to sorting through aspects of the larger context and trying to boil those down to what is at once brief and understandable. As I do this, of course, my thesis about John Neihardt and the reason for its existence—its importance,…

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