Category: Writing
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Approaching An Approach
Elbowesque response: Pretend that the author of this passage has a conversation with another author, one preferably from another century. Write about what their meeting might reveal. Suppose we take Joseph Harris back to Paris around 1910 where T.S. Eliot was rewriting his Prufrock poem in his journal at the Lilas café’. Ezra Pound […]
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Meditation on an Airplane
I watch distant blue hills, mountains that check off into the clouds or the water. I am afraid of getting old. I am afraid of forgetting what time it is what gate to depart what I’m doing here. I try to look as intelligent as possible perky, alert but I am afraid of the dark paths […]