<div class="line">“Bought them in a minute and a half,” he says,</div>
<div class="line">“for thirty-three dollars Canadian.”</div>
<div class="line">My father proudly shows me his new shoes,</div>
<div class="line">which I admire.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">The next day he asks me to try them on.</div>
<div class="line">He wants to give them to me.</div>
<div class="line">I wiggle my left big toe against the leather.</div>
<div class="line">“A little large,” I say.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">I have given my father many gifts—birthday dinners,</div>
<div class="line">daily telephone calls, vacations, a new car.</div>
<div class="line">My father has given me genes for a long life,</div>
<div class="line">the values of thrift, generosity, and honesty,</div>
<div class="line">but the greatest gift is his pride and confidence in me.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Today my father says,</div>
<div class="line">“I appreciate everything you have given me.</div>
<div class="line">There’s just one thing …”</div>
<div class="line">“Yes? I ask.</div>
<div class="line">“I only wish,” he sighs, “that my father had accepted</div>
<div class="line">what I tried to give to him.”</div>


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Last Reach

My Father’s Shoes

<div class="line">torment doesn’t wound</div>
<div class="line">terribly, terribly soon</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">when dribbled slowly</div>
<div class="line">in or out of tune—</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">hush by hush</div>
<div class="line">rune by rune</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">until this dish</div>
<div class="line">ran away with a spoon</div>


Super Dad Haiku

Call Me By My Name

Stainless

<div class="line">We met in rooms</div>
<div class="line">for the very sad time</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">the home we shared</div>
<div class="line">for thirty-odd years.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Our tears were not</div>
<div class="line">for all we had lost,</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">but washed against</div>
<div class="line">all that might have been.</div>


The Climb

The Nets

Today

Channellock Pliers

After Easter

A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan

<div class="line">Now into limbo depth of time</div>
<div class="line">Is fled that soul which had a man</div>
<div class="line">And silent, empty, earth pressed bone</div>
<div class="line">Remains, to learn decay alone.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Where to, where from, where hence, where gone</div>
<div class="line">None other knows, or cares, or can,</div>
<div class="line">A grab bag chance, a sack of skin,</div>
<div class="line">To mask our come, and going in.</div>


A Prayer for Ducks

Enchilada Night

Ashes to …

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Limit result set to products with a specific global product attribute term ID (required an assigned attribute).

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Specify objects whose parent is in an array.

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Limit result set to products with a specific average rating. Must be between 1 and 5

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The parent of the node. The parent object can be of various types

parent

The globally unique identifier of the product_variation object.

databaseId

name

date

The local modified time for a post. If a post was recently updated the modified field will change to match the corresponding time.

modified

format

description

Product variation SKU (Stock-keeping unit)

price

regularPrice

salePrice

dateOnSaleFrom

dateOnSaleTo

onSale

status

purchasable

virtual

downloadable

downloads

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if/how product variation stock is managed

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stockQuantity

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backorders

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length

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purchaseNote

catalogVisibility

type

image

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metaData

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the ProductVariation type

Connection between the Product type and the Product type

preview

Cursor used along with the "first" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

Cursor used along with the "last" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

The number of items to return after the referenced "after" cursor

The number of items to return before the referenced "before" cursor

Unique cache key to be produced when this query is stored in an object cache. Default is 'core'.

Term ID to retrieve child terms of. If multiple taxonomies are passed, $child_of is ignored. Default 0.

True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Default false.

Retrieve terms where the description is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of term ids to exclude. If $include is non-empty, $exclude is ignored. Default empty array.

Array of term ids to exclude along with all of their descendant terms. If $include is non-empty, $exclude_tree is ignored. Default empty array.

Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts. Accepts true or false. Default false

Whether to include terms that have non-empty descendants (even if $hide_empty is set to true). Default true.

Array of term ids to include. Default empty array.

Array of names to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Retrieve terms where the name is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of object IDs. Results will be limited to terms associated with these objects.

Direction the connection should be ordered in

Field(s) to order terms by. Defaults to 'name'.

Whether to pad the quantity of a term's children in the quantity of each term's "count" object variable. Default false.

Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Default empty.

Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Default empty.

Array of slugs to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Array of term taxonomy IDs, to match when querying terms.

Whether to prime meta caches for matched terms. Default true.

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the TermNode type

after

before

first

last

Connection between the Product type and the TermNode type

terms

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the visibleProduct type

Connection between the Product type and the visibleProduct type

visibleProducts

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the shippingClass type

Connection between the Product type and the shippingClass type

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<p style="padding-left: 0px;">>Who does not enjoy the Snow White<br />
glisten of a Stewardess smile.<br />
Or, to be politically correct<br />
a “flight attendant” smile&#8230;<br />
but gender differences are real.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">A recent study instructed that<br />
a Waitress smile increased her tips<br />
by 28% over less fawning service,<br />
but a grinning waiter<br />
collected nothing more.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">In my office for years<br />
I hung a pen sketch of two dogs<br />
tugging at either end of<br />
“The last false smile.”<br />
I wonder where that went.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">Perhaps it’s now on my lips<br />
when I stroll into work each day,<br />
pasted on my face so others won’t wonder<br />
how I’m really feeling.<br />
How am I really feeling?</p>


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