Double Nocturne
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Double Nocturne

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 10, 20261 min
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by Ralph Sneeden (read by Ken Marks) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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sulking, back turned toward its river.

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Faces of the dead, face of the child grown.

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Double Nocturne by Ralph Sneeden. Memory is like this mill town, sulking, back turned toward its river. The purge and flux of commerce always something before its time.

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Faces of the dead, face of the child grown. There was a house, late sixties, flushing 193rd Street. My grandmother filled the dinette with smoke. My father came home there from war, red hassock, the bar downstairs. I am always leaving that remodeled cellar, its pin-ups illicit as the cubes I stole from

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an aunt's Manhattan sucked to splinters. Through the laundry room, out to the alley and immaculate stoops, my cap gun a pinpoint in the sleep of dogs, that sudden bedroom light.

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