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April 25, 2020October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by Ken Sparling

  1. Deer tracks chase sunlight. Moments of discovery are covered over in new moments of discovery followed by moments…

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March 2, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Up Against the World: Resisting Sarki in His Mewl House, by Ken Sparling

  Sometimes a person writes something so completely different from anything you’re used to reading that you aren’t in a…

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May 5, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling

“There was a wall.”   This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…

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