tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499952558456031752024-02-18T23:13:12.454-08:00Larissa's WayLarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-20798499913561706002015-06-13T01:28:00.001-07:002015-06-13T01:34:06.127-07:0070 YEARS AND COUNTING<br />
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Their images <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">etched in shadow light</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and pain</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in a flash --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">as flesh sloughed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and fell</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">from mortal frame.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A war was ended</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So they claim</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Life ended</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in Hiroshima </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for you and me.</span></div>
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<i>*August 2015 marks 70 years</i></div>
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<i>since the dropping of the atom</i></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-5705780958302390332015-04-08T18:13:00.000-07:002015-04-10T00:27:08.425-07:00THE JURY'S IN<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am sickened.</span><br />
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The taste of blood</div>
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is heavy on this jury's</div>
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tongues.</div>
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No blood</div>
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smeared on the lintel </div>
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will spare this man/boy's</div>
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life.</div>
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His fate </div>
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is sealed,</div>
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I fear</div>
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No balm exists</div>
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for Boston</div>
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save this brother's</div>
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blood.</div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-68630967544609196932015-03-29T01:13:00.001-07:002015-04-25T07:08:05.686-07:00MARGARET'S SONG: ELEGIA FOR A SISTER<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I watched you grow,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">become a woman</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of incredible strengths.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your laughter</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">lit my world,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And washed my heart</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">clear of sorrows.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where will I find</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">another you?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Someone who can</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">transform my days</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and sooth life's wounds?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You were my sister.</span></div>
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You are my sister.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This shadow world</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of memories</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Will form in bright</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">reverie</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on my heart</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And thoughts </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of you</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Will be with me</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">throughout </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">my days.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-57439855302506884902014-11-10T00:24:00.001-08:002014-11-22T02:35:53.671-08:00THERE SHOULD BE COBWEBS<br />
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There are memories<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">that bring a smile,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a warm remembrance</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of childhood’s joy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Bacon,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">sizzling in a pan,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the aroma filling the room,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">mouths watering </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in anticipation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your mother in an apron,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fork in hand</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">moving each strip with care</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As you cut a peach,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">ripe and succulent,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">its slices falling</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on steaming </span>oatmeal.</div>
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But these are memories<br />
never spoke of now.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A jar of</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">peanut butter,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">bargain shelf special --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A loaf of wheat bread,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Freihoffer’s,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Buy one,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">get two free</span></div>
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<div style="font: 12.0px Geneva; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">are all the </span>pantry<br />
offers now.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eight months </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">without a job --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No peaches in</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">her child’s hands.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only anguish,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">where once</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">there were dreams.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-87342256155448529162014-11-06T02:55:00.000-08:002014-11-22T02:39:54.882-08:00HANDSOME<br />
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I look at his beard.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Geneva; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is turning white,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Geneva; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">making him look</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">more handsome</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and dignified.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I can barely remember</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">him as a boy --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">soft, gentle eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">trusting and full of warmth.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a man near 60,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">he has dignity</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and stature.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How I love him.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He is my brother.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a sister,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a bit in awe.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-76932182535909417722014-10-29T02:49:00.003-07:002014-10-29T02:49:40.081-07:00THE INHERITANCE<br />
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With it came dreams,<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">dreams of death</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Geneva; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with nondescript images</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Geneva; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">swirled in sensations</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of loss and privation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It had seem a god send</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">before its arrival --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Her final act of love</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for those she held dear.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But with its presence,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">loss surfaced</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">from depths unrealized</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in day’s bright light.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love you, Anna</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">More than words can say.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I never realized</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">how dear we were</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to you,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Never held you close --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My loss.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-47107050970690583602014-10-18T22:59:00.002-07:002014-10-29T02:52:56.744-07:00MOTHERHOOD UNDONE<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She had played the victim</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for so long</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was difficult to drop</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the role.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Reaching out, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">making needs known,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">came only in tears</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Geneva; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of recrimination.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How, how can she</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">be reached?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How made to see</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no blame is needed,</span><br />
<br />
just the words<br />
I need you.<br />
<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-82460814154724495552014-08-31T02:44:00.002-07:002014-08-31T02:44:35.658-07:00COUNTING CHICKS<br />
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I count them as I</div>
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sense the day</div>
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ahead resound as waves</div>
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slap on the shore of dreams.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This will be done,</div>
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Then that.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Things put in order</div>
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no less sure than</div>
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Homer's recitation</div>
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of the ships</div>
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of Agammemnon</div>
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Or the fleet of Odyesseus.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This will be done</div>
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and taken care of</div>
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<br /></div>
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Sure as the ripple</div>
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of an ocean breeze</div>
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brings waves on the sea,</div>
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<br /></div>
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These chicks,</div>
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they peck their beaks</div>
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through the opaque </div>
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filaments of life</div>
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<br /></div>
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Ready to break open</div>
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a world of possibility</div>
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with rewards.</div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-82332859516484600152014-07-29T20:10:00.000-07:002014-07-29T20:10:09.483-07:00ELEGY FOR A BOY LOST<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When she looked in his eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">she could see her soul.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The world around her</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">disappeared</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and love and caring</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">filled the void </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">between their existence</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the moment</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">he was lost.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She remembered</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">blue eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so sparkling</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and bright</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They seemed to hold</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">her very essence</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">entwined</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with his.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How does a mother</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">mourn</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the loss of one</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so young,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so tender?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When does the healing</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">start,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the heartache end?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In July 2014 a 15-month=old</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Handwriting - Dakota'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">boy died in his parents’ car,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">forgotten by his father on a</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90 degree day in Ridgefield. His</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">mother shared her grief with</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">our paper.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-52030483534171815512014-07-27T01:53:00.002-07:002014-07-29T20:11:05.773-07:00RENDEZVOUS WITH CLARITY<br />
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<br /></div>
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The mind is frail,<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a leaf</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">blown dry </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">by age’s progress.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Frustration comes</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with passing days</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of confusion </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and befuddlement.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You once were sharp</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">as field grass</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">blown between the fingers</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of a mountain lass,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a note carried on the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I remember turning</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to you</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for answers --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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I will be with you,</div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">by your side</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">through this old age.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To bring a smile,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a moments happiness</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to that dear face</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
And brush away<br />
the shadows of confusion<br />
that cloud your mind.<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-63496063001180580542014-05-25T05:14:00.002-07:002014-06-09T03:58:58.109-07:00DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE<br />
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<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Its in my mind,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">sizzles in my brain.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I must set it free,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">set it on the page</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">where others can see</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know many will shun it,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">turn away with a sigh</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Ah, she has issues”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But it lingers,</span></div>
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inside<br />
<br />
Then<br />
Escapes. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-72767735338134529002014-04-20T02:55:00.000-07:002014-05-25T05:16:33.457-07:00A SHERPA WIFE<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">She was Khadeu,</span><br />
<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
had married down to be with him.</div>
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But as a Sherpa guide,</div>
<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
he had brought wealth to their home</div>
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and their clan.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Rugs of splendid colors</div>
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adorned their sleeping plank and floor.</div>
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Butter, milk and curd cheese</div>
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graced their table.</div>
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<br /></div>
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She was proud to bear his son,</div>
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a boy of squat stature and dark eyes,</div>
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like his father,</div>
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who would surely bring a Khadeu girl with child</div>
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into their home as bride.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Yet when he made the trek </div>
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to The Mother of The Wold,</div>
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called Everest by the foreigners</div>
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who lined his palm with many coins</div>
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<br /></div>
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she visited the Shaman,</div>
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asking her to speak the words of</div>
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The Mother</div>
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to share the mountain's deepest thoughts</div>
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<br /></div>
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on how she would deal with her children</div>
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as they ascended her crags and rises,</div>
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moving toward her peak</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">
fixing ropes and setting camps</div>
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for the pseudo-Hillarys,</div>
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who though 4,000 had gone before them</div>
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longed to add their names to those who</div>
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had conquered The Mother.</div>
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<br /></div>
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At the festival of Dumje,</div>
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had she not danced and sung</div>
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The Mother's virtures?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Had she not drank the strong liquor</div>
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celebrating for prosperity, good health</div>
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and general welfare of her community?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Yet here she was,</div>
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boy-child by her side,</div>
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waiting for the 49th day when her husband's</div>
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soul could depart their home.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The Lama had cut a lock of her</div>
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husband's hair</div>
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so the breath of life might leave his body,</div>
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<br /></div>
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But his soul could not depart</div>
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until the 49th day after his death.</div>
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<br /></div>
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"Mother of The World,"</div>
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Why did you bury him</div>
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and the 12 others in that </div>
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glacial grave?</div>
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Did I not do all a righteous</div>
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Sherpa wife should?</div>
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Did I not sing in Sherpali,</div>
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praising your ways?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Was that not enough?</div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-49542870768658530852014-04-12T01:29:00.004-07:002014-04-12T01:29:41.641-07:00THAT OLD TWO STEP<br />
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<br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
By the third one<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She was numb.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Too many tangled,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“no, I don’t really love you’s”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">caught up in her dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Erotic arousal brings</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">visions of </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">dismemberment</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">little feet and hands</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">that would never hold</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a mother’s heart.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Heart? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What is heart?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eggs sizzle</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in the pan</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">where once a soft,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">moist kiss</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">bespoke of moments</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">lost.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“No, I did not love him.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Safer not to love</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">‘till dismembered babies</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">enter the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A saxophone somewhere</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">far off plays...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Baby, take my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Baby, take my hand.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">take me to the arcade</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Baby make them eggs stop</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">sizzlin’ --</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Make that pinball whirl end,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the arcade lights go dim,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Make this menstral trail</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fill once again with life,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">set aside the ache of life spent,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">life lost,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Life -- that egg that sizzles,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">never hatched.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-11873418039803772802014-03-22T04:03:00.003-07:002014-03-22T04:03:45.662-07:00SAHARA SUNRISE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This sand, </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">it sears the flesh.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Abrasions form </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">where once unblemished</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">cheeks shone bright</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with hope.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This train, </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">it moves so slow,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so achingly slow,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There seems no end</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to this long ride.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eyes grow opaque,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no images,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">just searing wind</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">blowing glass-edged</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">grains that sear away</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">protective layers.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They seem endless,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">these days of travel</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to the mines.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They seem hollow,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">vacant as the echos</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of dreams once dreamt.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-32429728159045337252014-03-02T03:40:00.000-08:002014-04-14T02:26:58.055-07:00LIKE LOVE, LIKE ROBERT HASS<br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am in love</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with Robert Hass,</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fucking his woman </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in the ass,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">sick of birth.</span><br />
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find anger there<br />
that brings me peace,<br />
<br />
like the succulent juices<br />
of an o're ripe peach.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-90987106662267927622014-03-02T03:38:00.002-08:002014-03-02T03:38:22.584-08:00THE PROBLEM WITH WOMEN<br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Drink from this vessel</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">all ye who thirst,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For sustenance flows here.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Quench that thirst</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">that parches the soul.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Abandon reciprocating</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with empty promises.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fill this vessel to the brim</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">lest it wither </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">like a haggard womb.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-28456759694656492312014-03-02T03:37:00.002-08:002014-03-02T03:37:30.308-08:00ON COMING HOME<br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> An exorcism has taken</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Place.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> This house no longer holds</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> childhood’s fears.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Gone is the wrestling</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> of angst and anxiety</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Once borne in this child’s breast.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> She feels at peace, at rest,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> No need to flee,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> no restless urge to leave:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Home at last.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-1556999744262270362013-11-17T05:54:00.000-08:002013-11-20T02:14:07.430-08:00ROTHKO'S EYES<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I cannot entertain </span>this truth</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">as being someone else’s.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I envision Cassandra</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">reaching out in her last moment,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">retching </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">from the stench of truth</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it is me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I think of Iphigenia </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on </span>that alter stone,</div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">eyes gazing up at father’s</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it is me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I watch with inward eye</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">as Clytemnestra plots </span>Agamemnon’s death:</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">bath drawn,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">knife stealthily concealed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it is me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“ROTHKO!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I shout, gazing on the Eagle.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And agonize,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">conceiving corpses</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">cold before my coil was formed,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And It Is ME.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">*The artist Mark Rothko’s</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Omen of The Eagle” was his response</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to “The Orestia.” I offer this feminist</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">response to both works.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-46727868498579582072013-10-30T21:36:00.004-07:002013-11-17T05:52:07.728-08:00ANNA'S LAST WALTZ<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She danced in the air,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a mote in the gaslight</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">soft </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> and fragile,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">her moment over </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">too soon.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When she thought</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of him</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was with a longing</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for moments lost,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For a dance never</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fully engaged in.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Raw silk</span></div>
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chafed at her neck,</div>
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this would be her last waltz.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One danced alone.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Her feet </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">never touching the</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">cold, </span>grey<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">cement </span>floor</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once the chair</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">was kicked aside</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And all of her sadness</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">evaporated,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A mote in the gaslight.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-74328517609238572102013-07-21T04:33:00.002-07:002013-07-21T04:33:12.494-07:00PORTLAND VIGNETTE<br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That night she watched as snow fell against the branches of the evergreen -- large, silent drops, cool and white drifting at its base. And the bamboo, soft and gentle dancing in the wind.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was so beautiful, the way its shadows lay against the snow.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sighing, she let the curtain drop as she drew her comforter from the chair.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Come July, she thought, the sun will warm me by the water and perhaps someone with a dog will be by my side to laugh and rest and dream with me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pushing the cap back from his face, he leaned forward and stoked the fire. </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For an instant he thought he caught the image of a woman flickering like sunlight on a mountain stream.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Come July, he thought, I’ll laugh with that woman by my side.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When they met each other at the new restaurant on The Willamette that Friday afternoon, they smiled and wondered if this could be the July they’d dreamt about that winter.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-29258770640663408362013-07-02T03:50:00.002-07:002013-08-31T18:11:15.738-07:00A DAY AT THE BEACH<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Seagrass wound,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">entwined with strands of hair,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a mixture of grays and auburns.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She rose like Venus,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">from the waves.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But the half-shell was gone,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">nowhere to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Inside, she briefly felt</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">that lass of 20.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Outside, her frame and demeanor</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">reflected the years of life</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">she had enjoyed,</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And sometimes endured.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He laid his hand upon her thigh.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She rejected the touch.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Too many memories borne heavily</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in its weight.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-42514361701717241042013-06-23T02:22:00.001-07:002014-04-20T03:03:28.283-07:00AGNES<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Check for craquelure --</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It seems she is the real thing:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and study.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I must look at sketches</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">made before my form was conceived.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I must recall a photogravure image,</span><br />
We shall call it “Woman with Bun,”</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a face reminiscent of my mother’s.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Who were you Agnes?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I hear there were men</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">who shared your brief life.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But then,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You were of a different age.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in life?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You were of a different age.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Is it purely fancy to think we</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-46792675844010068622013-06-14T03:16:00.003-07:002013-07-21T02:31:43.555-07:00WHEN LOVERS MEET<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The milk that would have fed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the god</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">with the fluidity of modern French.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Tu J’adore Monsieur Cochon.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You love me!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I travel on to mystic shores," she sings.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"La fleur de lis stitched to my heart,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The door to oysters’ sustenance </span>awaits."</div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-875080461708811872013-05-10T05:31:00.002-07:002013-07-21T02:37:05.772-07:00FEMINIST WRITING AS IT RELATES TO POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In order to present the feminist perspective in your writing, you must teach your reader to reinterpret (eurocentric ? male?) cultural paradigms. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> The writers of post-colonial third world nations strive to break from the imperialist-taught interpretations of the classics in order to write their own people’s reality. Similarly, the feminist writer must break away from canonically taught male pedagological interpretations of life.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Actual relevance of life from a feminist perspective can only be projected when your reader is able to interpret your writing outside of the canonical male pedagological parameters. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in his article “A Globalectical Imagination,” applies this concept for developing a relevant reading of the European (imperial) classics in postcolonial cultures:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Today, a Fanonian reading of Shakespeare would yield contemporary relevance even for students outside of the imperial perimeters.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Thiong’o then notes how through an imperial interpretation “Macbeth’s bloody dagger” could be explained as “the result of blind ambition, a fatal character flaw.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Freeing the reader’s interpretation from that imperial paradigm, allows the reader to see the bloody dagger as reflecting how “imperial nations had taken power by the sword, maintained it by the sword and the colonized could only grab it back by the sword” he writes. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Thiaong’o continues, “It’s not just Shakespeare, Goethe or Balzac. A certain reading of postcolonial literature can equally straitjacket the ethical and aesthetic vision (I would add, “of your reader as she interprets the postcolonial writer’s work.”)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Similarly, a reader of the feminist writer’s work can equally be “straitjacketed” by interpreting what she reads in canonical eurocentric paradigms and miss the concepts the writer is presenting. To avoid this happening, you must train your reader to reinterpret outside of that straitjacket.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09408538570732466026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649995255845603175.post-51768157555843545902013-04-21T04:36:00.002-07:002013-07-21T02:41:58.918-07:00MERCY FOR THE YOUNG<br />
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A boy lies near death in a hospital bed.</div>
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Who cries for him?<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Who shares his pain?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A city celebrates, people cheer.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The pain of human suffering is lost</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on the psyche of Boston.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am sickened as I see</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">their joy</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At his demise.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A child of 19,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What could he know</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of his actions?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What could he see in broad perspective</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of the complexity of the world,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of the weight of guilty that he might carry</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">one day when maturity came </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and memory gushed with the screams of his victims?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I cry for you Jahar.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I feel your pain.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I absolve you of your crime.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Many have sinned</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">each in our own way.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>*Days after the Boston bombings in April 2013</i></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>the youngest of the two brothers involved was</i></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>hunted down and taken prisoner after being</i></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>barraged by gunfire while hiding in a boat.</i></span><br />
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