silence
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music carries me
up over back country road short cuts
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
blasting hard fast distorted buzz
clicked off in my parking lot spot
a day...
From Browsing Poetry to Browsing Art Books
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Last summer, an editor at Yale University Press asked me to serve as an
anonymous reviewer for a manuscript, and they would compensate me for my
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Home Again, Home Again
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Got back from Pennsylvania a week ago, where I visited with the WCSU MFA
program to read from *Made to Explode*, which won last year's Housatonic
Book A...
Dating For Dummies – How To Gain Power Over Men
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Far From BasYc by G.L. Lambert
"G.L. I still don't get it. You need to break down dating like I'm DUMB
because I've read Solving Single [...]
Thanks for...
Jason Tandon
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Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of
poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the
Hec...
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This is the Country We Live In
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hold me to this
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becoming softer after every compromise
brittled and self-destructive, we were charring
into sharper malicious states of being
compressing ourselves into mo...
Life happens...
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My baby boy is 12...
My baby girl almost 1...
Life happened so i did not post anything in forever.
Well Same moonlight for our Dreams is coming back.
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THE JEM MOVIE'S SHANA AND COLORISM
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beige biracial "safely black" girl with straight hair
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Hey there, fighter
it will get brighter.
Take a breath, a little deeper
and bring your faith a little higher.
Remember, you are a leader
not a follower..
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Inhale the yawning frost
let it gather and collect
beside your sleepy heart
drowsy from neglect.
Rest your ghostly frame,
hush her muddled drawl.
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That's really gorgeous, insightful and true...as always! My favorite line is at the end when you wrote, "who celestially embrace peace by recognizing pieces of themselves in others." You are wise.
Dealing with thoughts of family lately...related and those adopted into my life...this piece is really on pointDealing with thoughts of family lately...related and those adopted into my life...this piece is really on point
brilliant tale on family.
ReplyDeletethanks for linking.
Happy Potluck.
Yes, we are all one family, really. Very nicely said.
ReplyDeleteGreat write! I wish more people focused on the similarities and ignored the differences.
ReplyDeletecreative take on the family dynamic. perfect!
ReplyDeleteyour last comment left me iresistably somehow inspired. & I'm sorry about the pain-,
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That's really gorgeous, insightful and true...as always! My favorite line is at the end when you wrote, "who celestially embrace peace by recognizing pieces of themselves in others." You are wise.
ReplyDeleteNice job!
ReplyDeleteDealing with thoughts of family lately...related and those adopted into my life...this piece is really on pointDealing with thoughts of family lately...related and those adopted into my life...this piece is really on point
ReplyDeleteThere is no mirror more accurate than seeing your reflection in another person's eyes.
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