A Visitation Just making zucchini bread and listening to the blues when who knocks of my door but my favorite recluse Harper she came all the way from the south to give me some cheer from her very own mouth The writing life’s hard, don’t let them tell you it’s not but write all the time, even when it’s too hot. Ignore all
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Alphabet soup anemic as he was the boardman confronted the blue-haired crank who pranced into the room with a dare-devil look in his eye screaming that his eave was about to fall into his fig tree and that and he had just started to gather all the fruit but the heather laughed at him and it was inarguable that he
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Deprivation Looking at the zero balance in her checkbook she booked a first-class flight to Madrid — ole! Standing at the bus stop in the pouring rain with no umbrella she unpacked her picnic basket on a golden June day. Watching her old boyfriend get married in Christ Church she walked the streets of Paris in the arms of McDreamy.
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and he danced [from Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle, 1933] when his heart was filled with emotion he danced when he felt the rays of the sun he danced when his blood ran hot with the hunt he danced when his heart was filled with pity he danced. all the joys of life all his gratefulness all
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Untitled [From Adlai Stevenson, Call to Greatness, 1954] In youth everything seems possible. Then you reach a point in the middle years when you realize that you are never going to reach all the shining goals you set for yourself. In the end reconcile yourself with what grace you can to living with your hot flashes your arthritis your sense
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Wild Nights [From Emily Dickinson} Wild nights, those fire nights when I was free to be with thee those fire nights, those wild nights indeed to us were luxury Futile were the winds to a lark that darts done with the compass and done with the chart this is what you’ve done to my heart We’re rowing in Eden not far
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What Love Looks Like No traffic on my way to the A&P ships sailing through Deception Pass seals barking softly at Chittenden Locks blue skies breaking through the clouds traffic lights all changing green annual reviews that sing my praises theater tickets that come for free chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting Disney movies with Mickey Mouse Honey mead with roasted beef
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The viscount decided to downsize his home. no more was he married and now lived alone the manor was filled with the grandest of things carpets and chairs and all sorts of bling one painting he hated, so dark was its hue he sold it for cheap, any price it would do the buyer he jumped all for joy in
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Bull lover of Zeus Jupiter of the Romans abductor of beauteous Europa as she bathed on the beach charmer she sit upon his back as he lay at her feet courtier with a large dog eloped to Crete father to a son King Minos nose of Hyades daughters of Atlas nymphs nursers of Dionysius shoulder of Pleiades half-sisters of Hyades Seven Sisters
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