reli[e]able signs

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"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? ... You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!"

"Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."

"Well it's no use your talking about waking him when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Thursday, April 13, 2006



Slept with the windows open. Trains and birds woke me. Yesterday when I left the porch door open a cardinal flew into the house and banged around the six living room windows. She knocked herself out twice but was off again before I could get to her, both of us panicking and unable to see what to do. In a daze, finally, she landed on the easel by the porch door, beak open, panting, eyeing me. She looked defiant, a bit fierce, and so it was: just as I closed my hands around her she flew out the door into the day.

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postcard: Knox College

We're bringing Jordan Davis's Million Poems Show to Knox for the Fall 2006 Homecoming celebration. The show will feature poets Karen Anderson, Jasper Bernes, Anne Boyer, and Karl Parker, as well as starring musician and houseband, JJ Appleton. Look for us in Studio Theatre on Friday, October 13, at 4 o'clock.

Want a sneak preview? See this variation on the show's theme song from last night's performance.

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