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Monthly Archives: September 2012
ACCIDENTALLY
Accidentally I caught the moon while sitting in a chaise near noon and looking at the summer sky. T’was hiding near some fluffy clouds and I was glad I was allowed to see it, though I didn’t try. … Continue reading
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LONG ISLAND SOUND
There were several architects and engineers gathered on the sand bar building sand castles. They made joyful sounds — laughter and shouting. They ranged in age from three to six — a mix of boys and girls — all there … Continue reading
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RE-ENACTMENT
I was walking along a concrete path. Here and there there were cracks. Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back. I believed it to be true once upon a time when I was six. So I … Continue reading
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A LEGACY
I trust Hana found the rattle tasted good – was told she also shook it – listened to the sound it made. She wrote to me the other day with some help from her mother telling me that she was … Continue reading
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I’M A LONG WAY FROM SUCH DESPAIR
When I turned over in the middle of the night and held her hand — the hand dear to me for more than forty years I recalled my neighbor telling me just hours before that when she visited her husband … Continue reading
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MY POLITICAL STANCE
I don’t presume to understand the arguments the politicians make. I’m easily persuaded toward the latest “take” and then will switch my point of view — will give another pitch my due. I’ve tried to read and read to grasp … Continue reading
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WHEN MORNING COMES
I saw the dawn wipe star light from the sky — not all at once but here and there, at first — and finally everywhere. There was some resistance but at the sun’s insistence the task was finally done.
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A DAWN SIGHT
At that moment when dawn began its daily journey and offerered the possibility of light — when all the stars had disappeared I saw a crescent moon up there hanging above bright jupiter. And then a jet stream moved between … Continue reading
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SIT AND WATCH
The eastern sky is just beginning to ease the darkness from the sky — the sky, for me, now over the waters whose lapping against the sandy shore was a lullaby last night as I went to sleep and are … Continue reading
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DELETE
It is happening more these days — your opened laptop revealing news: another friend has died. The world you love is shrinking — shrinking and address deleting is a thing you do — it has become a habit. … Continue reading
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