Monthly Archives: March 2013

Red shawl dance

Stand up when they dance in jingle dresses for healing red shawls brush earth to remember blood bright as red ocher our sisters gave back hold hands and stand for women who laid down but got up again and the ones … Continue reading

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in times of crows and ice, we dream spring

in this time of crows and snow I write of ice flowers mimicking daisies and you dream daffodils stir under snow, but earth keeps her own time despite our yearn towards a sunward tilt and longer days we crave that break into blossom; the … Continue reading

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Little Girls: Veal

No sweeter meat was ever marketed, wrapped tight and packaged, shiny for delivery; use by dates coded in biological clocks ticking DNA chose your cut carefully because what is soft what breaks in us shifts to sinew, muscles with time and can choke … Continue reading

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The marcher stumbles

How do you travel from that tie-dyed tent city of 1986, pegged and jogged across a continent for peace to now, your pulse threaded green on a heart monitor reassuring us you did not fall not yet. The answer is the walk … Continue reading

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WOMEN (and men who love them)!!!! Let’s share our words.

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Haiku heights prompt: Breeze

what will nod daisies scatters snow like confetti winter’s white flowers

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For Marek, After Bypass

This should be a bouquet arranged and fragrant for your hospital room, saying something simple but true, like get well soon, or best wishes for a speedy recovery, and those will come later when we sit in your room and listen to tired … Continue reading

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