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Category Archives: My family

2019, my Dad and coming back

March 28, 2020

2019 was a year that was filled with loss for me and my family – a dear aunt, my step …

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My father finds comfort in crows

May 3, 2017

Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …

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Waiting for the doctor

November 10, 2016

hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …

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In the sea

July 2, 2016

Sometimes, my wife thinks she is still a saber tooth. I call to her to come back and we rock …

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Lantern on path

April 2, 2016

Lantern swinging down path — I wonder if it is really there, if that is you, or just some accident …

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The Red Trail

November 19, 2015

you would think as you walk along the forest ridge this time of year there could be nothing more wondrous …

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Childcraft, 1964 ed.

March 27, 2015

loud, no books but encyclopedia, hiding behind end-table, drapes fidgeting, national geographics layered open alien religions, bangles elongating necks, circular …

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To my Aunt Cathy

September 13, 2014

It was as we played king of the raft — bobbing the way it did, always half-swamped with the translucent …

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Top of the White Trail

August 29, 2014

The first sense you have is of the isolation
and how disorienting it feels
to not see anyone, even a stranger.

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Haunted

July 11, 2014

I had thought it was God who
visited me that night, or the devil,
but perhaps it was just you,

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