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Ode to My Coat
Your lined pockets Deep as a cozy arm chair A secure haven For my cold fingers Your upturned collar stands guard Against the cutting wind...
Apr 8, 20171 min read
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Nasty Women Vote (but apparently it wasn't enough)
5:30 AM Time to get up. Took a shower and dressed Packed two lunches For her and her son. 615 AM Wake up, Mijo Time to get ready for...
Apr 8, 20171 min read
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Triptych for Tarif (pre-election 2016)
Part I. He went to Dubai on a business trip from the US where he lived, and took a few days to visit his mother in Saudi Arabia. When he...
Apr 8, 20173 min read
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What I Would Do....If
If you, my beloved child Were in harm’s way If you were taken from me And I didn't know where you were If one day, you didn't come home...
Mar 9, 20171 min read
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Life Changing Letter
The postman always came in the afternoon, after we had had lunch. He would knock on the door, and hand us the mail. I can't recall who...
Mar 9, 20172 min read
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Sadness (My Sometimes Friend)
Here you are again My sometimes friend You came in the middle of the night I lay awake with you wrapped around my heart And there...
Mar 3, 20171 min read
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How to Become a Scientist
You start by asking "Why?" repeatedly, from the time you learn to speak. On occasion, for variety, you ask "How?" Eventually, some...
Dec 15, 20164 min read
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Time Travel (or I Was By Your Side)
I am capable of instantaneous travel, of transporting myself anywhere in seconds. Thursday May 7, 2009. I travel from Sunnyvale,...
Oct 29, 20162 min read
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Mother
When I was a child Through raging fevers Chickenpox Measles Coughs and colds Tonsillectomy You were always there Gentle and kind...
Oct 29, 20161 min read
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Durian (an experiment)
In San Francisco, there is a restaurant in Chinatown on Washington Street at Kearny called Penang Garden. It serves...
Oct 9, 20163 min read
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To Sleep... (But Please, Hold the Dreams!)
Short version. A couple of months ago, I had a dream that starting out pleasantly enough and then became very disturbing. It has stayed...
Sep 30, 20164 min read
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Halley's Comet
Halley’s comet last appeared in 1986. My father, trained in mathematics, is fond of astronomy and woke up to see it in the middle of the...
Sep 9, 20161 min read
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Glowing Serpent
There you are, inches away Glowing irresistibly through the gorilla glass, tough and durable they say, I have broken three. Oleophobic so...
Apr 9, 20161 min read
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Heathrow circa 2002 (or The Power of a Word)
I had navigated the long and confusing walkways at London’s Heathrow airport, arriving finally at the security checkpoint which would...
Apr 9, 20163 min read
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City of Joy, City of Dust. "Freedom Song" by Amit Chaudhuri
"Daily," Amit Chaudhuri writes, "Calcutta disintegrates, unwhispering, into dust, and daily it rises from dust again." Calcutta, home to...
Dec 8, 20095 min read
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"Listening Now" by Anjana Appachana
Anjana Appachana's first novel, "Listening Now" starts in the 1950's and tells the story of several women and girls, belonging to three...
Jan 6, 20095 min read
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"Midnight's Children", the play, by the Royal Shakespeare Company (Feb 2003)
This review appeared in Outlook India magazine in February 2003. "‘Midnight’s Children’? Salman Rushdie’s book?" my friend in the...
Feb 14, 200310 min read
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Your laughter rings....(for Aria)
Your laughter rings through the halls of academe bouncing off the benchtops, rattling the racks of tubes lifting my heart. I marvel at...
Jul 10, 19961 min read
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