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liliales
cincinnati
esoterica/blather
Interests: movies, books, cooking, cocktails, history, gardening, quilting, 1965 pop culture, vintage advertising, poetry, william holden, frank sinatra, buffy the vampire slayer, the x-files, star trek: the next generation
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Quite Contrary
Posted Jul 19, 2019 at the bussard collector
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Of thee I sing
Here's something worth a half hour of your time today. It's a citizenship ceremony at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York that was held one week after the 2016 presidential election. The embedding here didn't code correctly, so start at 37:13 for an introduction and award given... Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2019 at the bussard collector
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Trying something new
Posted Jul 3, 2019 at the bussard collector
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Her Indian Summer, mark v, unfinished
Oppressive heat drifted on oceanic waves so thick you could see it sparkling languor filtered by sultry sunlight He applied and wore it like a finely woven suit or a glamour he’d cast luring me closer, drawing me in The steam from his pores clouded my vision blindly I followed... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2019 at elements in harmony
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every little thing
random short stuff stuff to look at stuff and nonsense stuff I think about stuff I make stuff I try to write Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2019 at life, the universe, and everything
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Just a few fragments
Posted Apr 3, 2018 at elements in harmony
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April inertia
Posted Apr 2, 2018 at elements in harmony
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plus ça change...4/3/17
mood indigo, 1997 muted music floating up from the room below dancing, swaying, tipsy together across this creaky floor, and you, whispering tasty lies, nibbling my ear, tellling me all those things every wide-eyed girl in her best blue dress yearns to hear. Should I be astonished, or pleased, or... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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mapping metaphor (4/2/17)
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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national poetry day (3/21/17)
Just to get on the board, a bit of nonsense, wish I felt like doing it right. willful attack of malaise whose will? not my own drifted far from reality reins slipped from my hands no bargain made no measure taken no treasure left behind— and just as pointless if... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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fluid dynamics (11/2/16)
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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someone's mother (9/28/16)
Today I learned of the death two years ago of someone I once knew, barely and briefly. I can see her face, almost, skimming over the surface of a previous decade I remember her glasses and her long hair and looking down at her as she spoke with quiet nervous... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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through smudged glass (9/26/16)
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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nexus (2016)
Something I started in 2014, decided to experiment with it for awhile. It might be a poem, eventually. Got to detangle and simplify, and so forth. Inhaling, eyes squeezed shut, time imperceptibly halts a bicycle with muddy tires appears, and you, panting with effort, having just avoided careering off the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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sonnet v: mark two point a billion (2015)
Cloak loosely knit, leaves safeguard Summer's solace sharply angled sun's warmth rendered frail Laid to bare, her Eden stripped and cheerless Harsh mirror reflects cracks beneath the veil Stiff from chilled air hands craft ersatz beauty awkward schemes to echo artless youth In wintertime her grace is draped in duty... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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you (2015)
@2000 words Mary came into the studio half covered in paint. Violet was there that afternoon, and she made cocoa for herself and Mary. They sat and talked awhile, as Jack was downstairs in the theatre, consulting with someone about lights. Mary said, “I sometimes forget to change my clothes... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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i want to believe—chapter two
1051 words “It’s been awhile since I thought all this through, I mean, nearly ten years, but I remember that whole weekend very well. As it turned out, it was the last time Kaitlyn and I spent any real time together. It was clear we were taking different paths. We... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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i want to believe—chapter one
Read the 488 word prologue first, in the post before this one. And I forgot to mention; I wrote it in 2013, but set it ten years ahead. At the time, I had a reason for that which is now a bit fuzzy in my mind. 1415 words “I grew... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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i want to believe—prologue (2013)
488 words "How much of this experience do you remember?" "Oh, all of it! I couldn't forget it if I tried. I did try, a little. But even though a lot of the party seems murky to me, what I did afterwards is too crystal clear." "And this makes you... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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sonnet v: unfinished (2013)
This is a work-in-progress... Cloak loosely knit, leaves protect Summer's solace sharply angled sun's warmth rendered frail Laid to bare, her Eden stripped and cheerless Harsh mirror reflects cracks beneath the veil Stiff from chilled air hands craft ersatz beauty awkward schemes to echo artless youth In wintertime her grace... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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climate change (2012)
Summer rests slipping beneath the surface hibernating ideals within Earth's musty cloak Autumn rises swelling in muted richness coaxing reality into suspended form Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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drought broken, briefly (2012)
All too briefly, the air was still, warm, a blanket of calm Unlike Damocles, not given to flattery yet a single hair bears the dagger twisting overhead revealing not the perils of power, but of Limbo or the vain grasp for illusory freedom Now the air is charged, cooling, crawling... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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event horizon (2008)
What graceless art in silent darkness she performs with mindful hands her heart defiant Eyes shut tight in conjured memory Of youthful radiation self-reliant Through days and nights that mingle unaware A supernova's luminescence fades Its core collapse too much for her to bear With binding energy her heart cascades... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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overheard at the table near the door (2008)
"So anyway, the idea is that what you see in your head can never be fully translated to the canvas." "Obviously." "Yes, and therefore, it can't even be called subjective truth, because it isn't actually truth at all, right? "No, because what you're saying is that the only truth that... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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life, the universe and everything (03/08)
it's all a farce. a test for the gullible to fail then take again in the artless belief there is more than one outcome behind a glass, the testmaker watches shaking his head at the foregone result her eagerness is her downfall over and over again. Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at elements in harmony
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