July 2022
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dead prayers to a man god
the night is the worst empty arms and outdoors is blue-black, like a bruise Like the bruise you gave me when you slammed the door in my face your empty promises of return reverberating like so much empty clanging of bells The bells, the bells of church ringing a God I do not know who […]
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time
I have no time, she says, pouring water for dishes in the sink years of time washing over her flitting memory-movies in her brain Gone like water. Time weighed on Sylvia Plath and washing dishes she knows what that feels like knows the feeling of heads in ovens knows the almost relief of vacations to […] Continue reading
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succubus
the warnings were there icy runways and signs on bridges warning ice forms faster here but you would not listen and as i slept i dreamed in symbols you there relinquishing ice forming on wingtips spinning the guardrail careening quickly your downfall the succubus she there waiting, watching you laughing then looking away clutching the […] Continue reading
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People’s faces by Kae Tempest
I feel so much when I listen to this. It is pure magic with words. Continue reading
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keening
there they flit across the stage those dancers i always wanted to be degas is calling across the years but he has painted out the pain the ugliness of the feet in satin slippers they make you forget, the satin shoes that covers a multitude of callouses built up over years blunting the pain of […] Continue reading
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Mystery
i am swept up in graceNo longer myself but a vision I once hadbriefly a flash of light you created anewthe stars knowas does all of creation that you move among us soundlessly the gardener in his garden pronouncing everything goodyou are the artist painting rainbows across the sky the blue jay brushes against the […] Continue reading
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Quotations on Fascism
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” Franklin D. Roosevelt “Are you […] Continue reading
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Gratitude
I have been so grateful for the kindness of people this week in the comments and support they have left on my posts. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed,” Hemingway once said. It take a lot of courage to bleed and see how the world responds […] Continue reading
About Me
poet, diarist, writer, teacher, woman, fragile, strong, northern life is my domicile, my barbaric yawp exudes against the tide
Diary of an American 