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Saturn is Heavier in My Dreams
Saturn is Heavier in My Dreams My head’s getting squashed again, all low and squat like I lived on Saturn or someplace like that, where the planet is heavy, and a woman from Earth can’t lift her head. My feet … Continue reading
Posted in depression, Poems
Tagged poem, Saturn, writing
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Theodicy (poem)
Theodicy for Wendy If they could, these words would wrap around the questions like a cocooning blanket. They’d devise an argument, foolproof, dispelling all nuances of Why? They’d console you moment by moment. They’d answer all your grief. But if … Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way, Poems
Tagged alcohol, death, DWI/DUI, Jessie Withrow, poem, theodicy, writing
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Ode to Alcohol (poem)
I’m a safe drinker nowadays (& besides, I love this photo, & Midnight Sun Brewery makes some good stuff!), but back in the day I drank waaaaay too much. Yet it played a role in my letting go, eventually, of … Continue reading
Posted in depression, Poems
Tagged aha, alcohol, beer, friends, giving up self-hate, Heidi, Julie, Lori, Midnight Sun Brewing Co., pantoum, poem, Sharon, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College, writing
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Deaths
Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it. The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had … Continue reading
Posted in Greens, Journal
Tagged candle, Dad, death, Mom, poem, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College
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No Questions, Questions (poem)
You wouldn’t think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I’ve written b/c of him. Yikes.
Conflation (poem)
Conflation I found home far from my birthplace, but at night my dreams remind me: I see them, Mom and Dad and their home at one with the landscape I now call my own and in daylight reality I know … Continue reading
Letter to a Straight Friend — a poem for Pride
I wrote this poem way back in 1979, as a sophomore in college — just a few months after I’d decided, after much agony of spirit, to accept what all my inner feelings were compelling me to know: that I … Continue reading
Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You (poem)
Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their leaving — but when you are alone at night … Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way, Ordinance, Poems
Tagged "Annoy Prevo think for yourself", Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, children, integrity, Jerry Prevo, Mississippi Avenue Baptist Church (MABC), poem, writing
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God of Mosquitoes (poem)
A summertime theology poem featuring “Alaska’s state bird.” I intended to post this a couple days ago, after a conversation with my friend Barbara who told me she was attracted to Buddhism but “I kill mosquitoes.” I was reminded again … Continue reading
Tributaries (poem)
I was offline most of — well, now I’ll say yesterday, Saturday, it now being early in the AM of Sunday the 14th. Saturday was the kick-off of this year’s PrideFest in Anchorage — the annual women’s show called Celebration … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Celebration of Change, Green-Lieght family, poem, PrideFest, Ptery, Rozz, writing
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