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Preparations, Busy Lady (a Barlette)
Poetic Bloomings asked us how we are preparing for the “holiday season.” We celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas and would love to get in on some Kwanzaa action, so somebody invite us! Here’s my take,...
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The Call
The Call Upstate Dinner with Sis and Rollie He retired early – stomach ache My hug couldn’t reach around his girth. The phone rang at 4am Mom: “Wake up, Rollie’s at Lourdes.” Flying down the highway…...
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Healing and Healing
First, I’d like to congratulate Laurie Kolp and Beth Winter for joining the Pretzels and Bullfights arena at dverse poetry. Both are wonderful, warm, talented women, and they will no doubt present us...
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Marian, Merlin, and Me
Friends, this is the time of year when the pastor and his wife are very, very busy, so I will be taking a break between now and around New Year’s Day. But I had to post this poem at Real Toads’ Open...
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Boston (There Are No Words)
Boston (sort of a rondelet) There are no words for fear, for gut-deep grief There are no words to give us much relief from action of the thief There are no words © 2013 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp...
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Bitter Loss (The Tsunami, Sendai)
BITTER HOPES (The Tsunami, Sendai) When ground beneath her desk rolled like a carpet shaken of its dust, a terrifying rollercoaster, Yuki screamed at something unnamed and horrible She thought, “This...
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One Last Good Day (for Mama)
One Last Good Day (for Mama) One last good day (seems like yesterday) we sat in her hospital room drinking coffee and shooting the shit about the old days and Blanche and all that was impossible to...
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After the Loss of Him
After the Loss of Him Her first impulse was primal: to clamp her fists and pummel God, invisible creator of Death. A precise hit to God’s gut; that might ease her unending, sharpsullen sadness. Time...
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The Book of Nina
The Book of Nina (for her parents and Team Nina) Her last chapter finished too soon Take a look at her book Pages of stories, of friendships Several paintings: Cerulean, Manganese All shades of blue...
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O, the Dreams We Conjour
I wrote this straight to art paper before I went to sleep the other night. Iraq, US-backed Israel vs. “we already bombed the hell out of the Arab world already” Palestine. Children deserve better. All...
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