Thursday, December 29, 2016

Good King Wenceslas and His Friends - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Good King Wenceslas and His Friends There is far more to the days after Christmas Day than digestio...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Christmas Morning - Some Dissembling Required

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Morning – Some Dissembling Required Does the quiet magic disappear at dawn? The Star, the ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

What Went ye into the Desert too See? - poem

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What Went ye into the Desert to See? What went ye into the desert to see? A pale liturgist swaying in the wind? A theologian dressed in...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Winter Solstice - The Year's Compline - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Winter Solstice – The Year’s Compline The winter solstice is the year withdrawing From all the busy...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Pilgrimage Along the A1 - Saint Michael's in Chesterton - poem

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Pilgrimage Along the A1 - Saint Michael's in Chesterton For all DeBeauvilles, Beauvilles, Bevilles, and Bevils Everywhere From ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Millennials at Work and War - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Millennials at Work and War Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us Now thrown into the exi...

The House of Winds - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The House of Winds The House of Winds can be accessed with this: A work-order from Aeolus time-stamp...

Happy, Happy Christmas - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Happy, Happy Christmas           Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of o...

The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, with Descants by Russian Spies - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, with Descants by Russian Spies The C.I.A. opines that Russia...

Stern Notes, Banknotes, General Mattis, and Mrs. Trump - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Stern Notes, Banknotes, General Mattis, and Mrs. Trump The Chinese government in Peking / Peiping / ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

December Through the Windshield - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com December Through the Windshield The windshield wipers hiss-scratch-thunk, scratch-thunk Scratch-...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Advent Rosary - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Advent Rosary Dark Advent is a silent waiting time When autumn chills into pale, year-end days And ...

Morning Mirror Face - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Morning Mirror Face The sleeve of your bathrobe brushes away The steam – and there you are, your mor...

The Local Department Store's Last Christmas - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Local Department Store’s Last Christmas The overly-arranged rat-packery Of cool-cat Christmas so...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Disoccidented - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Disoccidented A piece of patrimony popped up today: A scrap of Latin from the long ago Misplaced fro...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Bleak Friday - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com           Bleak Friday Advent, now more often called “The Christmas Season,” has crossed the frontier...

Supermoon - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com           Supermoon November’s moon is wonderfully bright tonight A supermoon - as if she could ever...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

I Attest That I Am - poem

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This week at work I received a Homeland Security form with a terse note that I had filled it out incorrectly - in 2003. But I had not fille...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

This Discussion Has Been Closed - poetry

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com This Discussion Has Been Closed Poetry Foundation Issues of gender race, identity Sexuality myth iden...

An Orderly Transfer of Pen and Telephone - column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com An Orderly Transfer of Pen and Telephone One is saddened to hear of some few students at the Universi...