Monthly Archives: May 2016

Divorce

My parents’ marriage died when I was six, and Mom reports I wasn’t that surprised. They broke what they did not know how to fix, for friendship didn’t prosper when disguised as some momentous mating for all time that neither … Continue reading

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Laughing Love

It’s absolutely fun to grin at you, a pure delight to hear you tell a joke or give you one. These little glees are new to me, just like the passions you evoke. I work so much, and rest more … Continue reading

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Begging to Differ

They say one never knows what one will do until confronted by extremity. In theory I would never, she’d eschew, and you would sooner die than act like he, except events upset our plans so much that we surprise ourselves … Continue reading

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Sun Block (History)

The moon this morning makes a parasol; it blocks the sun with annular eclipse, but we can’t see phenomena at all, with morning overcast that almost drips on us from sky of white and murk of May. So we cannot … Continue reading

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Battery

“Do you want me to call the police? I saw the whole thing.” That was my first inkling. I’d missed the tussle because I was inside at the climactic moment. As I opened the casement window in my bathroom I … Continue reading

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After 15 Years

I miss my husband. After 15 years divorced, I spent last Saturday with him and slipped into nostalgia. It appears I could have stuck it out – I sought a whim and built romantic castles in the air – except … Continue reading

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Reparations

So what’s it mean, she offering me speed? We haven’t shared cocaine for 40 years. And little brother’s Vicodin? I need it like another burden, it appears, yet eagerly do I partake. They owe me twice as much for their … Continue reading

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Goosing the Muse

I used to wait for inspiration’s nudge. The spirit moved me now and then to write, and what emerged was hard for me to judge because my type so rarely saw the light. Then I’d produce a poem or two … Continue reading

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Cruise Amenities

An orb of summer fruit, a perfect sphere of nectarine, red-orange flecked with gold, arrayed with plums and peaches, forms a tier of bounty in the galley. Someone sold us luxury and decadence indeed – for produce stocked a week … Continue reading

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The Charlie Character

Charlie hasn’t cried since he was 12 years old. His tear ducts worked perfectly when he was a baby and a child, but junior high harassment put a stop to that. Or maybe something else. He doesn’t know and doesn’t … Continue reading

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