In These Times
As I was walking the levee trail, I met a rabbit who offered me a cigarette. The rabbit wore a necktie and a suit jacket with shoulder pads. He had grayish [...]
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Feb, 2022
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Jan, 2022
Beginning
Beginning Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: tumbleweeds, fruit, this morning I could smell _______, no one seemed upset, just move one foot, stories I don’t want or [...]
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Jan, 2022
Allow the Magic
A year ago Jean had a love affair with a man who moiled the river. He was a lanky man, with a day’s growth of stubbly dark brown beard on his [...]
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Jan, 2022
My Sister Marina
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: it looked impossible; with your warm hands; trusted; my sister from_______; a hidden passage; use your words; I attract mosquitos like ambivalent [...]
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Jan, 2022
A New Year Prayer for Healing Division
I first wrote and published this piece several years ago when Barack Obama was president and John Boehner was speaker of the house, and we were in the midst of [...]
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Dec, 2021
Happy Holidays
Be safe and joyful this winter season. May you know gratitude and kindness in abundance. I'm in need of a long winter's nap. See you in January!
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Dec, 2021
Don’t Eat the Moon
This poem continues my theme of December oranges, but also serves as a holiday warning: don't let this season try your patience and drive you to exhaustion! Remember, the smartest [...]
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Dec, 2021
Juicy
Continuing my December theme, I give you my own personal ode to oranges. . . Oranges are loud. Oranges are splashy. They are not subtle. They are not shy. They [...]
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Nov, 2021
November Musing
I hardly need to say this because we all know it, but hey, it’s been a weird couple of years. This November I am grateful for family members and friends who [...]
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Nov, 2021
Our Lady Dolly
Written with the prompts: fear seized her, they are leaning out for love, limitation, levitation, lamentation, lemon station, afraid and curious, the boat moved, Dolores was Dolly to everyone else, they [...]