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On the Phone by Michael Milburn

That whooshing, watery, radio-being-tuned sound tells me he’s outdoors on his way somewhere and I’d better talk fast. I can’t remember the last time I phoned him without dreading that countdown to when he says, “I’m going into the subway, … Continue reading

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"Whose woods these are I think I know…"

It was on this day in 1923 that Frost’s poem titled “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was published. Frost thought it his best work and his best “bid for remembrance” and noted that the first two lines “contain … Continue reading

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