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Owen Wyke
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Storyteller (https://gonelawn.net/owenwyke) & founding editor of Gone Lawn Journal (@gonelawn.bsky.social)

Studied words and images in New Haven & Boston. Now living in some fateless middle-swim bedeviled by mountain laurels, coyotes and bells, bells.
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Maxine Kumin, Birthday Poem
I am born at home The last of four children The doctor mrings me as promised in his snap-jawed black leather satchel...
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I know I keep posting about my Dad but I just found this among my papers . . . a folder full of his detailed comments on issues of Gone Lawn . . . up to a point. Sigh.
Folder: "GONE LAWN," Dad's comments on every issue up to a point.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Trees/Shrubs
Fungus
Sky Almanac
Geology & Earth Sciences

Which of these would you approve of in your library?
Trees/Shrubs Fungus Sky Almanac Geology & Earth Sciences
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Mary Oliver's "Aunt Elsie's Night Music"
Aunt Elsie's Night Music Aunt Elsie hears Singing in the night, So l am sent running To search under the trees. I stand in the dark hearing nothing--Or, at least, not what she hears- Uncle William singing again Irish lullabies. I stay awhile, then turn and go inside. Uncle William's been dead for years. 2 Climbing the steps, I think of what to say: "I saw a bird stretching its wings in the moonlight." "There were marks on the grass— maybe they were footprints." "Next time I'll be quicker." She's as wrinkled as a leaf You carry in your pocket for a charm And fold and unfold She's so old there's no hope. She's so crazy there's no end To the things she thinks are happening: Strangers have taken her house, They have stolen her kitchen, They have put her in a cold bed. It is summer. The singing grows urgent. Twice a weck, sometimes more, Iam called from sleep to walk in the night And think of death. I have been to the graveyard. I have seen Uncle William's name Written in stanc. I snap off the flashlight And come in from the darkness under the trees To the bedroom. Aunt Elsc is waiting I lean close to the pink car. 5 Maybe this is what love is, And always will be, all my life. Whispering, I give her an inch of hope To bite on, like a bullet.
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Why/how has Mary Oliver been kept hidden from me for so long? She's a veritable genius, better than Yeats.
Some Questions You Might Ask Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like The wings of a mmoth in the beak of an owl? Who has it and who doesn't? . . .
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This day in things I didn't buy that I wish I could have (out of print at the time) and instead I made a copy of so I could own it and look at it and show it to others.
self-made copy of Margarita Karapanou's "Kassandra and the Wolf"
September 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Me: If I could just make a duplicate of myself I could get more work done.

Calvin & Hobbes: Ahem . . .
Calvin's duplicates make duplicates in his duplicator box.
September 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Look at those numbers . . . summer's apparently over already, sigh.
Forecast today (9th) — next Thursday (18th) : 66° — 73°
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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No explanation.
"appliances continue"
September 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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From Seelie Catch . . .
Doom cannot be fought but can be confused.
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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So you all know, from now on I live in New England Uplands, so make your addresses to me accordingly . . . unless you're sending me something by USPS. They're weird.
Map of regions of northeatern United States
July 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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. . . From Gertrude Stein's "Lucy Church Amiably."
Conversations can be how do you do. How do you do. How do you do. Can harm harmful be with an exclusion of the part of the time in which they are carried. Carry him out but do not bend him. One five six three all out but she. ...
July 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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From the Epstein files, reporting by Hugh Dougherty:
Epstein compared Trump to "an emomtionally challenged 9-year-old," and said, "He screams and yells at Rhona more than anybody else. His screaming his how he treats people. He has a tantrum not a temper...." — reported by Hugh Dougherty.
July 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This just breaks my heart. (I've elided over the "recovery" followup because, as is so typical with depressives, it is illusory and often ends in people saying, "I don't understand! He was doing so well!")
"[He said that] I had told him he was a genius, and others had concurred. Why wasn't he famous and rich? This rage must have festered beneath that inexpressive exterior for years."
July 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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From Gombrowicz's Diaries volume 1 . . . a must-read for everyone.
Witold Gombrowicz on music: "Was he a pianist or a horse? I could swear that this had nothing to do with Mozart but rather with whether or not this nimble steed would wrestle the bit away from Horowitz or Rubinstein."
June 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Happy summer solstice, everyone!
field with rising solstice sun
June 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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This book, always loved this book, has anyone read it? You should. Read it tomorrow. To the wonderful end.
Nigel Denis's Cards of Identity, cover featureing deck of cards with text on them.
June 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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My shelf of physical-copy lit journals, which hasn't been added to in an eon (so to speak), because since then it's been only online journals for me. Do I still open these occasionally and reread the gems within? Of course! Yes, I do.
3rd Bed, Pindeldyboz, Chain (all stars, this one), Hobart, Frank, Puerto del sol, Marginalia, Sleeping Fish, New York Tyrant & others.
May 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The Dreamlife of Angels (1999) used to be on YouTUbe now it's been taken down . . . you can't wach it otherwise. I'd buy it if I could, it's such a good film . . . excellent writing, terrific acting . . . now I can't refer people to it. Sigh.
élodie bouchez says, "She wants to know if the little detail of class matters, while natasha régnier smiles beside her.
May 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I might be forgetful but do I recall in my childhood approaching summer with rain and rain and also these °s? No, I do not.
Temperatures in 60s, 50s and one 49°, also rain and rain and rain, approaching summer
May 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This is important for everyone to understand.
adjective 1 1.a.
1800–
Designating or belonging to a family of languages of which Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, and ancient Assyrian are members.


May 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Antæus . . . this was a book I found in my dad's library in my late teens. It introduced me to Donald Barthelme, Margarita Karapanou, Wolfgang Borchert, William H Gass, Carlos Fuentes . . . invaluable for me at that time.
Antaeus Special Fiction Issue, 13/14, $1.95.
April 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I'm the tiny one at the very end at the bottom. I was also shitty at baseball, I just barely made it in. Only year I played little league. What a lame experience. At least our shirts were black.

Also we were corporate advertisements.

Don't ask me why this is torn, I know not.
Bunch of kids in little league team, "Golden Electric," our sponsor.
April 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Old North Church, last night in Boston.
Old North Church, Boston, lit up with message: One by Land, two if by D.C.
April 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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. . . one of my favorite strips of Calvin & Hobbes . . .
March 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM