Poem for the Day - Marble Tornedo

Marble Tornedo My girlfriend Heather experienced a weather adventure. The havoc she caused upset the boys squatting at marbles. She had several hundred of her own, shoulder- slung in a string bag, betting everyone. As the storm bullied clouds off Barrenjoey, she joined their game with forty of their Tom Bowlers, Cat’s-eyes and Peewees in the rink. At the line, the wind lifted her skirt, her plaits like marionette strings. The Big Bonker she...

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Graphic for the Day: I'm Such a Feminist!

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John Ashbery on PBS News

John Ashbery on PBS News A Perfect Hat I forget what it is I would rather be doing. Floral and verbal, I am in the thick of what I would rather be doing, jumping off a cliff, rousing subordinates. There are just so many things one would rather be caught out doing, like measuring the tree, the swift shadow of which menaces us and bluebirds. ...

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