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She holds
the skirt for me to see,crimsonand fluffy, full of red ruffles,and she laughswhen Iscrunch
my face and say, why? Itremin..
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The
gentle breeze is cool
against
my face, the scent
like
fresh dewdrops on a vineyard.
Sunshine
pushes past the br..
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***
I
named Lisa Lisa
and
Sara Sara due
to
a request from their
A-Fa
to
use a simple
name she could pronounce.(A-Fa..
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It's
a strange sensation
when
you lose a tooth
that's
been with you
for
so many years,
the careful guardi..
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This one had to go back into the shop for an overhaul.
Special thanks to Ken e Bujold.
** Accepted for publication by Awakenings Review 2024 Fall is..
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Here
where I live, in small town Iowa,
we
really should have a day when we
bring
back Chaplin and silent movies,
ri..
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***
I
have a ton of these tiny tomatoes -
the
Tulsa food pantry gave them away;
I
guess they wouldn't survive long
enough
..
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***
(Looking
for Mr. Goodbar, 1975, by Judith Rossner)
Had
you asked, I would have soared
into
a gorge in my Ford Falcon to se..
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***
What
do you say when there's nothing more to say?
What
purpose is served by small talk? Chit-chat
sounds
like squirrel tal..
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No
doubt somewhere sometime
in the
distant past eleven was a lucky
number
for some tribal nomads who
moved
in one lon..
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