Boredom by Louis Jenkins

Boredom by Louis Jenkins Nowadays I am seldom bored. There simply isn’t time. Not because I am so busy, it’s just that time passes more quickly as one gets older. Boredom that once lasted hours is now compacted, concentrated, so that one can experience hours of boredom in a few seconds. Intense boredom that causes […]

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Encounter in August by Maxine Kumin

Encounter in August by Maxine Kumin Inside the tepee that admits sunlight to the underpart he stands eating my Kentucky Wonders. Downs pod after pod, spilling the beans, the ones I’d saved for shelling out this winter, thinking soup when he’d gone deep, denned up. This is not Eden, which ran unfenced and was not […]

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