… and if the dead in their still and snowbound village glare with longing at this clattersome train, it's because in every season the breath of eros sparks the best and most dangerous weather.

In this regard, I am reminded of an incident in the home of Doña Reina de Abeja, an amateuse of the occult, who some years ago brought a medium from Duluth, Minnesota, for the delectation of her cronies.

Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / … / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male […]

A judge has ordered the euthanization of two dogs that nearly ripped off a man’s ear in a June 10 attack in Dix Hills.