The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The Upper Midwest's third-largest compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette. Our mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious.

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JOHN KOENIG is a freelance creative serf based in St. Paul, Minnesota where he attended Macalester College in the early part of the century. He enjoys piano jazz, deep image poetry, sauvignon blanc, canyons and nostalgia.

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

la cuna

n. a twinge of sadness that there’s no frontier left, that as the last explorer trudged with his armies toward a blank spot on the map, he didn’t suddenly remember his daughter’s upcoming piano recital and turn for home, leaving a new continent unexplored so we could set its mists and mountains aside as a strategic reserve of mystery, if only to answer more of our children’s questions with “Nobody knows! Out there, anything is possible.”

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