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Articles by Billy Collins
Whale Day
One Walking My Seventy-Five-Year-Old Dog She’s painfully slow, so I often have to stop and wait while she examines some roadside weeds as if she were reading the biography of a famous dog. And she’s not a pretty sight anymore, dragging one of her hind legs, her coat too matted to brush or comb, and a snout white as a marshmallow. We usually walk down a disused road that runs along the edge of a lake, whose surface trembles in a high wind and is slow to ice over as the months grow cold.
Lake Shore | The Walrus
“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like diamonds, and I hesitate to say the wind is whispering, but it seems to be doing something very close to that this morning. And if these clouds do not look like fluffy balls of cotton, I am not sure what they look like.
Billy Collins | The Walrus
“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like …
July/August 2004
“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like …
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