Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Tag: Relationships

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    And it’s summer  I have a white eyelet bathrobe lined in baby blue, which I wear on the lawn after supper, and I dance for my grandmother  who sits in the chaise lounge wearing dark  glasses that are blonde tortoise with green lenses. Her skin is dark: tanned from years of regret. I am knocking…

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  • Retirement

    Retirement

    Retirement There are some people who are content with the color of the sky and don’t long for a hurricane or a different season. They like the color white and are not tempted by cerulean blue or inky black or radically red. I see these people, and I am filled with green and bitter and…

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  • Getting Older

    Getting Older

    I noticed today that my hands are not my real hands. Someone has replaced my real hands with hands that look very old. If I hold them up to the light with my fingers pointed upward, I can count the number of wrinkles on each finger and there are at least 50 on my middle finger now.…

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  • Take a Breath

    Take a Breath

    I’m trying very hard to do something that I never learned to do as a child and that is to control my emotions. There are a few programs in schools these days teaching kids how to modulate their emotions. If they feel angry or sad or frustrated they are taught how to take a breath…

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  • Summer School

    Summer School

    So I am a sucker for an Instagram reel that is sentimental and tonight I watched one about a female pilot who climbed into a souped up amazing, powerful, beautiful Air Force plane, and all around her the men who sent her off were high-fiving her. I found myself in tears watching this. I’m not…

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  • The Man At The Front…

    I wonder if I am the only person who waits for the doorbell to ring and have it be the love of her life last seen some 20 years ago? I thought I had given up on that fantasy but it happened again yesterday. I was home alone reading a book about telepathic communication and…

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  • Death

    Death A magician is called to the bedside. He opens his coat, its lining revealed shiny like a young minnow. Snaps it around the waiting soul, then unfurls it up to the sky. The murmuration happens. A round of applause crackles as you lift into the light. There are black and fragile wings, no bodies,…

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  • Award

    Nobel Peace Prize The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group today “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” The organization…

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  • Remotes in General

    Remotes in General

    Poetry prompts Things to consider when buying a remote Alaskan property: How interesting are you to yourself? Could you actually shoot a bear? Would you keep repeating the word, “Caribou Caribou Caribou” to yourself until you actually saw one? Have you ever rubbed two sticks together to cause fire? Are you scared of the dark?…

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  • Ocean Eyes

        Dear Billy Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell: When I first heard “Ocean Eyes” I couldn’t believe that someone finally understood how I’ve been feeling stuck in this house with my family. Your song made my heart vibrate and spread inside my chest and out my feet and I don’t even think I could walk…

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