8/21/26 “he cracks a joke, pulls a grin and lets in
some silence, telling me that he too knows divorce,”
Academy of American Poets
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- "U-District Incident Report" by Chancellor Emeritus, Heather McHugh, born #OTD in 1948. Read more: poets.org/poet/heather-m…
- 8/20/26 “Corseted whittles of infinite birdcage at Bangkok’s open market, and all I wanted was the toy peacock.”
