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Rag Bones: A Triolet
by M M.
views: 14 | rating: 10 | comments: 10
June 20, 2007 11:23 AM EDT -- Nothing special, except to him. How curious, they were more than toys. We buried them at the sidewalk's rim. Nothing special, except to him. He lost them - eyes began to dim, Slobbery, stepped . . . more
June 28, 2007 08:11 AM EDT --     A hot day in June. Cherries to pick, one dwarf tree An endless yield. Cherries to pick. As I am Dried, frozen, boiled into jam. more
April 27, 2007 08:41 AM EDT -- Today, I feel that my entire life is borrowed - from what or whom, I don't know. It's not the right color (sort of tan and gray) and it doesn't fit - tight in some places, baggy in others. . . . more
June 12, 2007 05:07 AM EDT -- Don't tear me a(par)t. My s(par)tan life (par)ts Like a stream. It de(par)ts As you close my a(par)tment door. (Par)ts of my rusted (par)titioned self Finally fail - the com(par)tments . . . more
June 18, 2007 10:37 AM EDT -- WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD NOT FAIL ?   I’d get that manuscript in the mail. Spend a day living as a snail, slow And leaving my trail of slime   Without regard to erasures . . . more
His Final Days: A Triolet
by M M.
views: 18 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 7
June 01, 2007 05:00 AM EDT -- He does not wander far away. It's hard to make it down those steps. He is fourteen years old today. He does not wander far away. He is fourteen years old today. Outlived himself, according to . . . more
The Catalpa Tree
by M M.
views: 12 | rating: 9.5 | comments: 8
June 19, 2007 09:55 AM EDT -- There was an order to early spring bloom times in our yard as I was growing up: first the lilies of the valley, the tulips, the lilacs, the iris, and then the catalpa tree. We had one in our front yard, . . . more
So My Mom Died Six Years Ago
by M M.
views: 15 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
May 21, 2007 06:03 PM EDT -- And as my boss said before I resigned, "Everybody's mother dies. Get over it." So, it's that day. And I still have the magazines I was reading in those final days at the hospice, . . . more
The Day Wrestles Me to the Ground
by M M.
views: 29 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 11
April 27, 2007 12:52 PM EDT -- Woke up sad, barely able to move, smell of burnt toast and the ashes of a bad day already begun - my son awake, three-thirty in the morning. Panic and pacing all night and I was afraid the house . . . more
April 30, 2007 11:43 AM EDT -- And the forsythia blooms. I hope it is in the right spot this year, gathering all of the sunlight my shady yard has to offer. I've lost three of them. This time I am careful to follow the planting . . . more
Dad, The Day After His Day
by M M.
views: 9 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
June 18, 2007 02:20 PM EDT -- He was a mystery to me, in a great many ways: a silent, stoic man who grew up on a ranch in South Dakota, speaking only Norwegian for the first years of his life. I have a picture of him standing on a . . . more
April 23, 2007 12:59 AM EDT -- Over the past several Sunday evenings, I have been watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel. A simply amazing series, much of it revolving around the ebb and flow of nature: spring and fall; night . . . more
May 07, 2007 12:17 PM EDT -- When a child is born, you want only the best for that new life. You look into the fathomless blue eyes and think of days to come. A boy. Bicycles and Little League. Scouts - maybe even Eagle Scout. Girlfriends . . . more
 
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