Category Archives: Family

Amputation

Posted on May 18, 2024 by sputterpub

Remembering a woman 40 yearsago, who birthed a daughter long-desired,and then confessed to me, voice choked with tears,she couldn’t love the baby as required…It wasn’t that she’d harm the child – no –but deep attachment didn’t fill her soul.Two years … Continue reading →

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Done

Posted on May 17, 2024 by sputterpub

Her misinterpretation is so gross,the cause could be stupidity or, worse,perhaps it’s really meanness and a doseof insecure amounting to a cursethat’s warped her view and obviated closerelationship. Love shuttered to reverse.The pearl devolved – became a grain of grit … Continue reading →

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Escorting

Posted on May 16, 2024 by sputterpub

Accompanying nearly 99to co-absorb the words the doctor said,I think we helped. We didn’t hear her whine,and when we saw confusion take her head,we acted as interpreters insteadof letting miscommunication stand.Our aim is not more years until she’s dead,but maybe … Continue reading →

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Just Check it Out

Posted on May 1, 2024 by sputterpub

Just check it out, if you are into games.If you love art in vibrant hues that shout,if you’re enchanted by Teutonic names,just check it out. Developed by some talents now aboutfive decades old and burnished in life’s flames,their field’s a … Continue reading →

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Grudging

Posted on April 26, 2024 by sputterpub

Conversing with my brother, we recalledoccasions when a loved one acted poorly:the time a sibling of the bride appalled;or when his wife tried hurting my kid sorely.I mentioned mine has not yet overhauledher heart to allocate forgiveness surely.Our tone was … Continue reading →

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Impression Expression

Posted on April 10, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m sensing insecurities in allI fondly visited so recently.Five minds in bodies, bent to overhaulexperience that’s obvious to me.I wonder how they’d fare if they could seethemselves relaxed and open to a flightof fancy ballasted but ranging free.I wish they’d … Continue reading →

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A Cause

Posted on April 9, 2024 by sputterpub

It hurts to witness the emotions here –a character oppressed and overworked;a brain-reduced adult who’s never clear;three teens by games and carbohydrates jerked.I love them though I’d skirt this atmosphere,but visit often lest my cause be shirked:to nudge them up … Continue reading →

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Growing Pain

Posted on April 8, 2024 by sputterpub

Hostility’s perceptively reduced.We see that 18 is a calmer agethan 16 was. Or maybe “calm” is loosedwith timely therapy. There is no gaugeavailable, but now the second’s juicedby anger Mom can’t manage to assuage.This middle kid was never harsh or … Continue reading →

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Equipping

Posted on April 7, 2024 by sputterpub

On Easter eve we made a team of 3,equipping baskets for the family(although no one’s religious, very young,or needing sugar raiment for the tongue).The oldest would have rather done without,but watched my daughter’s face suffuse with doubtpotentially resentful, or at … Continue reading →

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Aged Appetite/Mulish Mind

Posted on March 31, 2024 by sputterpub

She wants a burger every time we trya restaurant we haven’t been to yet.The menu has some options that could fly,but she’s uncomfortable – her mind gets seton ordinary fare, and she’ll forgetthat sandwich is too loaded to be fun.She’ll … Continue reading →

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