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"Rhode Island" (for my mother) by Amy Miller That summer in Misquamicut, when boys as ripe as roadside corn shot pool in darkened 18-over bars, I found the joy they buried deep in denim straight-front pockets- pipe screens, joints, and all the damp and salty wounded want my navigating hands could plunder. Home and sunburned, bedroom walls my gulag-no diary, no dolls-digging sand and ashes from the trenches of my shoes, I heard her laughing-late, in bed with Dad, no malice in her voice, in love-a girl whose moody boy came home for her with mad martinis, seven jokes to sleep on, sleep itself a garland he laid at her feet. About the Author 
Amy Miller is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose writing has appeared in many literary journals. She works as a trivia-book editor in beautiful Ashland, Oregon, where she wrote "Rhode Island" — in a bit of sonnet serendipity — after hearing a GK prompt on The Writer's Almanac: "Write a sonnet for your mother." Her two poetry chapbooks are The Stablehand's Report and The Mechanics of the Rescue. More at www.SaturdayPoets.org/about.htm
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Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
