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Stripped clean
By Chris Clarke on 2009 12 24 at 12:58:20 am | 0 commentsYesterday a blue-eyed storm blew through Los Angeles. The wind had been out of the desert for some days, calm and a bit warm, and then Tuesday morning we were buffeted. It got cold, for Los Angeles, and the wind reached 30 miles an hour at
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Sonnet uncompleted
By Chris Clarke on 2009 12 15 at 1:07:01 am | 2 commentsTonight I ran, and cursed this aging frame
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each mile run cursing harder than the last
each breath more labored, every pace the same
and sorry degradation, milestones passed
chained to my ankles. Streetlit sky a sieve,
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Slow down.
By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 08 at 12:31:10 am | 10 commentsA shriek from outside, a sickening noise almost inaudible, and then another I couldn’t identify. Tires on a curb? And then angry shouts, a deep, bellowing male voice, a woman crying hysterically.
I’d been dressing for a run. I went outside.
An
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