Month: Jan 2017
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Day 2: Miz Quickly’s Inventive Momentum
The Momentum of a Long Thin Shadow I. It feels good to let my head go still, go quiet as dust. That’s why I walk. With direction. With momentum. Purpose. — toward a blue sky horizon, just beyond the red tiled roof of the house over there. Through a landscape damp with winter. And my…
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Day 1: A Bit More Quickly History
Into and Out of It Again Even the dogs hang on to their hunger, these wretched days of suspicion and selfish prayers. Last year we lit beacons to brighten dull skies as the news fell in and out of truth and harm. Now we hide our thoughts in our eyebrows, and long for some past…
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Day 1: A Little Music for Miz Quickly
I Made a Little Music …bought a piano, learned that my fingers no longer belong to me, but I can make a broad blade of grass whistle; it’s such a torturous sound, so I sip tea and hum delight, fold hankies into origami shapes. for Miz Quickly’s Day 1:
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A Bit of Pure Fiction for Sunday Whirl #280
It’s Never Just About a Back Door Slamming More like a mean demon wind, always bristling against my good nature, banging like iced-cruel fingers, he said, in that way he has with words… The back door slammed again, bruising the door frame. It was already hanging thin by its own echo. Damned kids can’t do anything…
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