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Days of the Dead

November calls me to write from my grey mood, my desire to hibernate with a twice-read tome, cling uselessly to the felt nothing-newness of my late middle age. No. Go outside and look more carefully. Note the fresh-newness that is there in every minute of every day in the world outside my head. Embers. Trees

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the laundry goddess

Remembering Wash Mary             ‘Mary came to wash for Mother every Monday.’                                                             Emily Carr                    ‘Outside the open window             The morning air is all awash with angels.’                                                             Richard Wilbur   Wash Mary’s soul slips in at dawn   no showy, blowy thing but true   two-handed wingless seraph   (the

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Old Technology

The word ‘Luddite’ lands with a thud, a thick necked hick of a word, with a bad rep and rap.  Let us call it a ‘passive resistance’, a relaxing into the soft nostalgia of witless but wonderful technology; a typewriter that won’t pick out your mistakes in red, a camera whose shutter makes a real

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Doors

The Ides of November brought hurricane winds and a three day power failure. I stood at the kitchen counter preparing dinner before it got dark and watched several of my grandmotherly pines bend and bend until they snapped, rebounded up and crashed to the ground. It was a good time to stay inside by the

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this shoulder season pulls a Kinsale cloak an oiled canvas coat over the smooth curve of sunned skin with a sigh   relentless rain aslant icicle shard sharp drives us to retreat and attend to how humble we are before water       Nov 2020  

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