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- Poached with Salmon Toast. Birth of the Witch. An Inn for the Coven.
- Billionaire’s Brunch or Death Row Last Meal. I Got the… Toadstools.
- Poached on Toast. Moonage Daydream. Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?
- Slow Salmon Scramble. The Creator Has a Master Plan. Letter of Testimony
- Coddled. A Foreshortened Journey. It’s So Easy.
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Month: August 2026
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Eggs: Poached. On griddled croissant toast with hot smoke salmon.Song: “Birth of the Witch” by Master Wilburn Burchette from Guitar Grimoire apple music spotify Poem: “An Inn for the Coven” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi (Originally published in You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, ed. Ada Límon, also published in The New Economy by Gabrielle…
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Eggs: Omelet with Caviar, Chive Crême Fraiche; Lobster Roll, Connecticut Style with Old Bay and Tarragon. Champagne. Song: “I Got the…” by Labi Siffre apple music spotifyPoem: “Toadstools” by Charles WrightToadstoolsThe toadstools are starting to come up, circular and dry.Nothing will touch them,Gophers or chipmunks, wasps or swallows.They glow in the twilight like rooted will-o’-the-wisps.Nothing…
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Eggs: Poached. Over Pulled Pork. On Griddled Croissant Toast.Song: “Moonage Daydream” (Live 1973) by David Bowie (from Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Soundtrack)apple musicspotifyPoem: “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” by Tracy K. Smith (from Life on Mars)Don’t You Wonder Sometimes1. After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they spanHides something elemental. Not…
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Eggs: Slow Scramble, French Style, with Hot-Smoked Salmon.Music: “The Creator Has a Master Plan” by Pharaoh Sanders apple music spotifyPoem: “Letter of Testimony” by Octavio Paz (translated by Eliot Weinberger, The Poems of Octavio Paz). It’s a lonnnnnnnnng poem. Best enjoyed somewhere you can settle with a strong cup of something. Or you can scroll…
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Eggs: Coddled. With pancetta, Parmesan & chives. Croissant bread toast points. Side of espresso.Song: “It’s So Easy” by Ted Lucasapple musicspotifyPoem: Louise Glück, “A Foreshortened Journey”A FORESHORTENED JOURNEYI found the stairs somewhat more difficult than I had expected and so I sat down, so to speak, in the middle of the journey. Because there was…
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Eggs: Father and Son Egg & Cheese Sandies, Griddled Brioche, Yellow Bird Agave Sriracha. Song: “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night” by The Space Ladyapple musicspotify Poem: “At the Zoo” by Alfred Starr HamiltonAt the Zoo On the back of an invoiceI wrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters And because…
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Eggs: Omelette au fromage du Holiday Inn Express avec des tranches de bacon. Song: “Palmcorder Yajna” by the Mountain Goatsapple music spotify Poem: from The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda (I-II) I.Why don’t the immense airplanesfly around with their children? Which yellow birdfills its nest with lemons? Why don’t they train helicoptersto suck honey…
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Eggs: Over easy. Song: “Street People” by Bobby Charlesapple music spotify Poems: “Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke“Lying in a Hammock on William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota: Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside,like…
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