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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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Twinkies (A Villanelle)

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In supermarket snack-food competition
The Twinkie makes a figurative killing
While almost wholly lacking in...
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Frog Pond

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Two hundred paces will create a loop
On squishy grass around the pond out back,
But every twenty steps you’ll...
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Monadnock

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It roughly means “a hill that stands alone”
In Abenaki. This is what you find
When hard-configured rock gets left behind
On weather-sanded pl...
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Word Sandwich

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Now I’m a vegetarian, but there’s a kind of meat
Some people seem to like that’s made from animals that bleat.

You take that meat from sheph...
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Letter from Alexandria’s Last Librarian

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Dear Dad, it’s gone. That self-anointed clown
“Atrocious Theodosius” has decreed
That all our sanctuaries be burned down.
So farewell Muses....
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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