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member name: John F Walter
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March 31, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
For Padre Flavio Zavala, my first mentor, who taught me a little Spanish, a lot of Latin, how to play chess, and what I needed to know about finding God in the small things.
Plaza . . .
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January 22, 2008 10:50 PM EST --
For Miguel, former student and good friend, now an outstanding lawyer in Andalucía and author of books about law and heraldry. A blessing for your firstborn, a prayer to heal a divided Spain. . . .
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April 05, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
For Will Evans, who inspires me on Twitter as nobody else can. It is six fifteen on this Holy Palm Sunday in the year of our Lord anno domini 2009, and the first procession of Semana Santa has commenced . . .
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March 16, 2009 06:41 PM EDT --
For my dear friend Nathan Schauer, playwright, poet and novelist, who is looking for rain in a place called El Paraiso Perdido, where only droughts occur in the natural surround. For new readers . . .
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July 07, 2006 06:40 PM EDT --
FOR THE SPANISH PEOPLE
(Author's Note: Early on the morning of March 11, 2004, three days before Spain's national elections, a local group of jihadist terrorists with tenuous links . . .
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March 16, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
for Antonio Conde
Another great day. Sunny Andalusia's warming up,
Spring shoots green tendrils up through history's cracks,
wind whips mens' sombreros into open . . .
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February 15, 2006 07:11 PM EST --
for Inmaculada Cara Martin
The yanquis are out tonight. Hollering their brash drunkenness,
Confusing Plaza Nueva with any Mexican zocalo where they can tackle
And overturn . . .
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March 06, 2006 11:35 AM EST --
for Isabel Cara Martin & Provash Budden, mis cunados
A piso* in a house fronting an aljibe;
An aljibe** in a church facing a cross;
a cross in a plaza in front of the church;
the plaza on a hill . . .
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