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member name: M M.
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Does hurt never end?
by M M.
views: 26 | rating: 10 | comments: 9
April 16, 2007 12:44 AM EDT -- An incident: a woman I had regarded as my best friend for ten years invited me for coffee. "So lovely to hear your voice," she'd said in her voicemail mesage, a response to my having called . . . more
April 17, 2007 11:36 PM EDT -- We edit the pain. This is how we survive. But it remains like shrapnel under skin and rises, and sometimes breaks the surface. But it does not break us. Sometimes it disfigures, or makes us perfect . . . more
Lilacs: A Triolet
by M M.
views: 34 | rating: 10 | comments: 12
May 21, 2007 03:30 PM EDT -- The reddish-pink Korean ones in bloom Gone to seed, the common purple clumps Now sere, brown - a shabby room The reddish-pink Korean ones in bloom. I think of sticks, of switches, broom And childhood . . . more
04-13-07: Friday
by M M.
views: 4 | rating: 10
April 13, 2007 04:59 PM EDT -- Four, thirteen, seven. Haiku: just numbers, not bad or good. Just numbers. more
Not What I Wanted . . .
by M M.
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
April 15, 2007 08:03 PM EDT -- to do on a glorious Sunday afternoon in April. I went to bed. I slept for hours under a down quilt while children played in tank tops, neighbors walked their dogs, and the garden tugged at me like the . . . 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
Winterkill
by M M.
views: 27 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 6
April 25, 2007 12:20 AM EDT -- It is the butterfly bushes I mourn most deeply and the monarchs that will not come because of that: the deaths lead to absence, the guests invited but the dinner unprepared. It is the white . . . more
May 30, 2007 04:50 PM EDT -- Yes, and plenty of it - that is what it takes to survive. I did not think I would survive at age fourteen, when I swallowed a bottle of aspirin. Or the year that followed, after the mental hospital, . . . 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 08, 2007 12:13 AM EDT -- No matter that most of the National Guard are in Iraq, with the frontloaders, Humvees and training necessary to piece together this shattered bit of God's earth as best one can. The President's . . . more
 
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