“though I ‘m certain that this heart of mine hasn’t a ghost of a chance/ in this crazy romance,/ you go to my head.”
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“though I ‘m certain that this heart of mine hasn’t a ghost of a chance/ in this crazy romance,/ you go to my head.”
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Author: The Best American Poetry
Dominic Symes’ “Intimacy” was first published in the bi-annual journal Meniscus in 2021, an issue of the magazine in which the specter of Australia’s covid-lockdowns understandably hangs over many of the poems and short-stories included. It is difficult not to read Symes’ poem in this context: for many of us, the lockdowns transformed intimacy into…
The other day, Anne, my yoga teacher began class by saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears. So says Lao Tzu.” I couldn’t stop myself from correcting her, “Nope, he never said that.” “Who said it then?” she asked. “No one knows. I am guessing fake Lao Tzu? In other words, someone who…
Due Diligence By David Lehman from The Atlantic SEPTEMBER 2015 ISSUE SHARE They didn’t do their due diligence. They didn’t do it, And now they rue it, And how they will rue not doing it With vigilance when they had the chance. They talked the talk but didn’t dance the dance. They committed the folly Of…
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928) Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, cond. (4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing the tune in ’27 at the Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow in a play called Roar, China. In one…
Velvet. Of course, they were velvet. That electric silence when they started to part. It was glorious. The curtains beckoned us to other worlds. We were grateful and eager and we walked through. We, the audience, an intrepid newborn community of explorers and optimists. Rarely though, did the film deliver on the curtain’s promise, And…
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