Category: Journal
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15 August: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The O in Oh Osnabrück’s Bocksturm “Witch’s” Tower There are places in this city that draw my eyes downward to the smooth-worn cobblestones, to broken feet and courageous eyes, to the shifts in colour by the ancient towers, to ribbons of silk in the hot blue sky, and…
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25 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week I.Caged (a haibun) My sister has a glass display dome, its base supporting a small bare twisted branch, and on that branch are perched 8 stuffed hummingbirds of blazing plumage that drip of scarlet, emerald and purpled blues. Each bird with its glassy eyes, each bird with claws…
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24 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It of culture,of art,for some too intangible, and they put riches on their body, rather than in their heart. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright and not to used without…
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21 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It Mum let me pick out the material – deepest blue denim. That dress cost as much as a week’s groceries; she reminded me of that every time I wore it. This child who had always run wild against the wind now wanted to be…
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20 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It Sometimes I Forget She’s Gone For a time she was the best in meFor a time I half believed in rights and wrongsFor a time I believed in poetic sympathythat poetry was my friend For a while we were a summer meadowFor a while…
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19 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
The I In It The Daily Annoyances of Being a Pretzel My shoes are on a floor mat and I’m wearing one of those crinkly sounding procedure gowns that feels like paper … sitting, waiting for the doctor, and I spin off a few minutes looking through the window at dense summer green and misty…
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16 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It Tell Me About Lavender and I told her it’s the colourof a pigeon’s feather,a haze over sleepy eyes,of pensive rain, a moth on a blossom,of songs to a rising moon,a star’s early light,what Burton saw in Taylor’s eyes, a fragrant tune,a sound of wordlessness,amber…
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12 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It She’s a Seven Nation Army How much of that dayshould I hope to remember …. the warm dust rising behind the carmy mother’s outthrust chinmy mother’s instructional glance her suntanned skinher leaf-brown hair another dress from the same pattern…. but different fabric…. she’s yellow…
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11 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It The 11:31 Train to London She laughsand sendssunlight into every passenger’s heart on this train heading for London Bridge, its whistleblowinglike a gale at every crossing,and there’s rain again, thatching, etchingwindows,and she laughs once more, it warmsthe fabric of wintery summer mornings, she wears…
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10 July: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week(a quadrille of 44-words sans title) A Perfect Art knee-deep, wading a chalk stream for crayfish, boys reining in summer days, summer shorts and t-shirts haven’t seen the skyline for days through the trees, the weight of water skims their skin, chills their hands and makes for memories and…
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