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poetry
Your Numerology
for Regina Steiner It began fifty thousand years agobut Pythagoras did not have the number.Gibbon did not count it in the risenor subtract it from the fall& Will Durant & Chaya Kaufmandid not count itin four million words and ten thousand pagesof covenants & campaigns of the ages. Omitted in ledgers keptby owners of a […]
Certiorari: Connectionist’s Path to Rainy Mountain
The way to Rainy Mountain is preeminently the history of an idea, man’s idea of himself. . .
What remains is fragmentary: mythology, legend, lore, and hearsay—and of course the idea itself.
-N. Scott Momaday
19 Inches
Once for railroad relays the 19 inch standard conveysof its faded ancestors. But steel racks enclose in formidable pose anything shoulder-width: computer, or woman. He dons stirrups mounting strips reserved a rack just for hermiddle of her middle where he chooses to meddle. Pinioned in rail economy they’re new standards — modernity, manhood, the not […]