Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Tag: Family

  • My new book

    My new book

    Available now on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Lucinda-Watson/dp/1936135981 Support your favorite poet and buy my book from Amazon or your favorite bookstore!

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  • Someone Asked me

    Someone Asked me

    Someone Asked me How I Start a Poem Someone asked me how I start a poem And I said it had to do with scent, I remember, summer 1957, being underwater and chlorine and the vivid look of other swimming beings. Play “Tea Party” “Why?” I never understood “Tea Party” or the scent of afternoon…

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  • Listening Two

    I would highly recommend learning the art of invisibility at a young age. Today’s world is crowded. It’s useful to sit still,  breathing but not moving your ribs. At this time levitation may be possible  which is helpful. Taking notes is useful. it’s in the details one learns the ropes and listening to neighbors in…

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    Listening I would highly recommend learning the art of invisibility at a young age. It’s useful to sit still breathing but not moving your ribs. Taking notes.. It’s in the details one learns the ropes and listening to neighbors in hotel rooms is lesson number four. To cries, whispers, the click of locks, learning what…

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  • Vol de Nuit

    Vol de Nuit

                  Vol de Nuit “This is your captain speaking” I hear as I look around my seat and curiously push the dimly lit buttons with the diagrams on them of what I may want to do for the next 10 hours.  I love the deep voice of the captain especially when he’s British: so reassuring…

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  • Wasp Homelife

    Wasp Homelife

    “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we bury the upper crust. “

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  • The Favorite

    The Favorite

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  • Memorial Day

    Memorial Day

    In honor of Memorial Day I choose the Good Humor: a treat on a wooden stick, vanilla ice cream covered in thin dark chocolate, covered in white shiny paper that was hermetically sealed over it. Teeth were the utensil most often used to open it up! The good humor arrived in the truck driven by…

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  • Is it too late to…

    Is it too late to...

    Is it too late to be Nancy Drew now that it’s hard for me to get up in the morning and one knee hurts so badly but it does stop about seven minutes later? Is it too late to be Nancy Drew now that I forget things and my hair has turned gray and sometimes…

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  • Save Our Global Community: Stay…

    The Virus Remember the children’s game “gotcha last”? In our family we played it for hours. It actually drove our mother crazy but we couldn’t help ourselves. The game would stop for hours and then there would be a little subtle finger touch during the dinner hour that one of us would feel all too…

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