Scrawls

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Perils of Typesetting

“Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.” 

—Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), in letter to fellow Welsh poet Vernon Watkins, 1938 (Portrait by Augustus John) 

• Editorial Comment: I use handwriting for almost nothing but grocery lists. Which, by this theory, explains my uncertainty at the market. 

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

Morning Mist





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