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April 2025

Experimentation in Standard Time
This 2013 poem never made it to Substack.
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If Deer Could Speak
another 2013 poem
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Memories from Rope-Yarn Wednesdays
Three years from now, as the crow flies,
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Sonnet #62 - Government Shutdown
I wrote more poems in 2013, the year of my retirement from State, than any other year in my life.
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for a rainy Sunday morning
Here is a sonnet I wrote a few years back, "for a rainy Sunday morning." I was obviously obsessed with penning a sonnet with a standard rhyming pattern.
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The USS Thresher - In Memoriam
I wrote this sonnet a few years back to memorialize the loss of the USS Thresher, a fast-attack submarine, with its 129-crew onboard, on April 10, 1963…
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April in Baghdad - a poetic memory
I spent a year working in Baghdad in 2008.
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Two Sonnets for Prince (and Intro)
Intro: When I think of April, I think of Prince's untimely death nine years ago, in April.
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