By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary rhymer-in-residence)
Without a witty lover sex
is just a spasm, a reflex
too clinical and brief,
the climax prelude to a sleep
or flight . . .
This no wit in bed denies:
a deft tongue
is doubly prized.
Ephraim, Autumn
Photo of Ephraim, WI by JFK
Seattle Times
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The Oregonian
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Point Lobos, Winter Day
Photo by JFK
The Atlantic
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NY Review of Books
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- Kidnapping: A Very Efficient Business April 21, 2019 Anne Diebel
- Euripides, with Notes April 21, 2019 James Romm
Brain Pickings
- Spring with Emily Dickinson April 18, 2019 Maria Popova
- A Stoic’s Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Balancing the Existential Calculus of Time Spent, Saved, and Wasted April 17, 2019 Maria Popova
- Zadie Smith Reads Frank O’Hara’s Love Poem to Time via an Old-Fashioned Telephone Line April 16, 2019 Maria Popova
Antiwar.com
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- No Need To Whisper, AFRICOM Isn’t Listening In April 22, 2019 Nick Turse
- In the Beginning There Was Kosovo April 22, 2019 Justin Raimondo
Foreign Policy in Focus
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- Trump Is Expanding America’s Wars, Not Ending Them April 17, 2019 Tom Engelhardt
Feminist Daily News
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- Court Rules TikTok Video App No Longer Permitted in India April 19, 2019 Feminist Newswire
Feministing
- What Backlash Against “Political Correctness” is Really About February 21, 2019 Kylie Cheung
- Abortion Access Improves Children’s Lives February 4, 2019 Senti Sojwal
- I Asked the Department of Education to Fight for Black Girls. They Ignored Me. January 14, 2019 fatimahfair
Doe Bay, Orcas Island
Photo by JFK
Deep Sea News
- The Video of Giant Isopods Eating an Alligator in the Deep Sea You Must Watch! April 4, 2019 Dr. M
- How many species are in the deep sea? March 25, 2019 River Dixon
- How is the deep sea so diverse? The struggle is real for late 1900s ecologists March 12, 2019 River Dixon
Safina Center–Blue Ocean Institute
- A new idea for curbing poaching in African elephant range is taking flight April 1, 2019 Guest Blogger
- Grandpa’s Reef film premieres at the DC Environmental Film Festival on Saturday, March 23, 2019 March 21, 2019 Guest Blogger
- Take a look inside the cabinet of extinct and rare birds March 19, 2019 Guest Blogger
