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Weather has been creeping toward winter, but (I could be wrong) less steadily than last November. The evenings and nights have been in the low to upper 20s. But the days are still getting up to the high 50s. Today was thoroughly gloomy, overcast and even drizzly at points, but the temps were still in…

This is the opening of Billy Collins’ “The Long Day” in the November issue of Poetry: In the morning I ate a banana like a young ape and worked on a poem called “Nocturne.” In the afternoon I opened the mail with a short kitchen knife, and when dusk began to fall I took off…

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