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HP #1
For years I honored the series of books that kids and adults read, and when I looked at bestsellers Harry P always took #1 because of the author's hook. The time to write this poem is time I'm not reading. I finished chapter one and plot cues are blooming. I'll leave work on the dot to read more about the orphan's jackpot.…
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Waiting for Pastry
I brew my coffee at home, but sometimes it's best paired with pastry before work time so I walk driven in the humid slime of DC summer air gasping out rhymes. At 7 am this cafe opens, but pastry staff deliver the filled bins closer to 8, so expectations den tough internal exclamations of, "When?!" Horrible disappointment…
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I loved you first by Christina Rossetti
I loved you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove. Which owes the other most? my love was long, And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong; I loved and guessed at you, you construed me And loved me for what might or might not be – Nay,…