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This is where Henry Rathvon, having retired from a lifetime in the crossword puzzle biz with Emily Cox, is posting his verse (notably Science Sonnets and Food Poems), comedy sketches, and occasional fiction.

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Dental Floss

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Five thousand years before we had such things
As nylon and Gore-Tex, we’d chew a stick
Until one end was frayed and that would be
A toothbrus...
7 days ago
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Early Warning System

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A songbird wants to write another chapter
Of avian survival, which is why
Whenever it espies a cruising raptor
It goes to DEFCON 1 and vents...
10 days ago
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Phobos and Deimos

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The God of War has sons named Fear and Dread.
Good-looking lads they’re not by any means.
Slack, pocked, and lacking daddy’s rugge...
13 days ago
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The Retired Cryptic Crossword Writer at a Picnic

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My past as a lad
I fondly recall
From here where I sit
Having eaten it all.
  
The cherry tomatoes
Deliciously many,
The sauc...
16 days ago
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Xerxes I

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This Persian king was losing to the Greeks;
His heels they had been nipping at for weeks.
To run for home he had to cross a strait
Called Hel...
19 days ago
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    Retired writer of crossword puzzles with partner Emily Cox. Now poet and novelist.

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    Ex-xword writer, along with Henry Rathvon.

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