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  1. Parker Owens
    Thank you so very much for reading these! Leonardo and Michelangelo might have understood perfection and created that which is as close to it as we might see. But we’re going to have to live with who we are, not some magazine ideal.
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    Thank you so much for reading these two sonnets. Old Friends is how I see changes in the mirror, but which I hope will turn out to mean less to those I haven’t seen in the past years. Perfection reminds me of the long dangers of setting up comparisons between oneself and unattainable ideals. Thanks again.
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    Old Friends My dentist says my teeth are all adrift like schoolboys on a summer afternoon eternal in its golden, sunlit gift for them to play the hero or buffoon; he says that my incisors, one day soon upon the ocean of my jaw must stray, perforce to let soup dribble from my spoon while those same children laugh at my dismay. Let molars and bicuspids go their way and make my mouth a sign of age a-creep, our friendship cares
  4. Parker Owens
    This puts a delightful spin on the idea of a dragon hoard. My mind is a-spin with useful things Dray could hoard in boxes in his basement, like obnoxious TV pundits, or a collection of autocrats, maybe.
  5. Parker Owens
    Curiouser and curiouser. Kavan can probably determine from Caspian’s reaction that his speculations are hitting pretty close to home. Gideon may be able to teach Kavan how better to use and perfect his shadow melding. Who will teach him about his other, hidden talent? And did I detect a frisson of attraction to Gideon?
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    You are most kind to read and then re-read these. The trees are indeed bare, and snow is in the forecast. There’s a certain melancholy to these, I agree, but that may be the minor key in which November is played. There’s definitely a sense of aging, too, in both scarlet and dry, curled leaves. Thanks very much for your response and for taking time over these.
  7. Parker Owens
    The last of these is a common enough feeling for me; if you also share it, then I can be glad in not being alone. Thank you for reading these, and for your comments!
  8. Parker Owens
    I do love a sonnet. Thanks very much for reading!
  9. Parker Owens

    The Marine

    Parker Owens commented on Carlos Hazday's story chapter in The Marine

    It’s when they start explaining How to use partial differentiation as they optimize the resilience of their structures that their parents’ eyes glaze over…
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    The Marine

    Parker Owens commented on Carlos Hazday's story chapter in The Marine

    I enjoyed this chapter. Lots of fun in the sun, and spectacular stars to shine on the birthday boy! I’m enjoying their vacation immensely.
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    May Morning

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in May Morning

    Wherever you may be, I hope you can enjoy such moments as these, which etch themselves into memory so as to remind us of beauty when the world darkens. Thanks very much for reading these, and for your comments.
  12. Parker Owens
    Thank you so very much for reading these. Each of my fragmented poem pieces were, like a single scarlet leaf, beautiful. But detached from a full poem, they wither. I’m glad you connected with this image. Thanks again.
  13. Parker Owens
    I can see why the Skyscraper calls the Morgenstern poem to mind. Thanks for pointing me in that direction! Thank you also for your kind words about the first of these. It was a long time in its formation.
  14. Parker Owens
    Thank you very much for your thoughts on these. Lately, I haven’t been able to write anything of any substance. Then, the first poem poured out of my pen unbidden, the moment I turned my eyes to the pile of notes and partial verses accumulated in my sketchbook. Undoubtedly, the Jentzsch you’ve shared added its unconscious influence. Migration is an odd and unique time. Robins, usually very garrulous birds, behave like silent monks sequestered in their trees. It was an arresting sight to see, yet not hear anything.
  15. Parker Owens
    Those delightful European robins, they, too must whisper about winter. Thank you for reminding me of them! I’m very glad their tree took your fancy.
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    My head is stuffed with fallen leaves, a heap of highly colored fragments; scarlet phrases, golden sentences detached from the main branches and blown by distraction to lie amongst a million dull brown details and neglected cares which filled the forest of my days and shaded me from actuality’s rays, but now curl, dry and lifeless, to rustle under unheeding feet while all about me the solemn, silent grey-clad giants
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    Elvira and Henri got nabbed by Caspian’s much better informed and powerful clan. Now they must face the consequences. Surely nobody much blames Konstantin? Yet someone must, for he’s bleeding now. I will be hanging around for a week to found out who’s responsible.
  18. Parker Owens
    She probably conducted experiments by dropping her brothers on their heads…
  19. Parker Owens
    After all, teaching her primary logarithms and Newton’s Law of Cooling has to be worth something right?
  20. Parker Owens
    Can I go on their next vacation? Please?
  21. Parker Owens
    1. Eggs: yes. I’m fond of making omelets and frittatas. Or in Shakshuka. 2. Favorite story? I have lots of favorites. @AC Benus Bound and Bound or his Careme were stories I couldn’t stop reading. And there are tons more. 3. I was pointed to GA from another website. I stayed. Then I was inspired to write. 4. I have several working titles: Sisyphus Grades Papers, or perhaps more seriously, Rediscovery. 5. Favorite soup? Pinto Bean Vegetable, or, like @WolfM, New England Clam Chowder or maybe Chard Stem, or Tortellini in Brodo. But there are so many tempting possibilities.
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    Part 5

    Parker Owens commented on Krista's story chapter in Part 5

    Thanks for this delightful chapter. Asher must feel he’s won the lottery to have Rhett show up like this. Perhaps Rhett will feel the same way after the evening is done.
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    Adjustments

    Parker Owens commented on Aditus's story chapter in Adjustments

    I enjoyed reading this chapter. There’s so much information to process in it. Mother certainly must have had a clue about what was to come. She seemed to have no gift at all for diplomacy. As for the band of brothers, I look forward to their continued development, as long as Caspian permits it.
  24. Parker Owens
    May I suggest the Godowski Passacaglia? Delucchi plays it beautifully.
  25. Parker Owens
    Bravo, and thank you! It brightened my afternoon whole grading papers.
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