Tag: poetry
member name: Birdie Jaworski
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August 07, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
The afternoon of my mother's wake I bought a Stetson at a pawn shop. It hung next to a stringless guitar. It hung, covered in the invisible dust of money hungry pain. It hung on a tarnished brass hook. . . .
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October 06, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
Sometimes I watch them hover
over my boys' pallet treehouse
clinging to that weak-limbed pine.
I know they see me, dishpan hands
scooping dog crap from holy sod,
my face broken red from men
who never . . .
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June 15, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
Mr. Gola squinted,
hands resting on a scarred school desk
and he preached from our book of earth science
like all that matter mattered
like we cared, or listened, or intended
to finish those five . . .
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July 12, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Today's Writing Essential explores darkness, fear, things that go bump in the night. Gather's writers have posted some incredible stories and poems of their dances with the devilish. I'm enjoying . . .
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June 21, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
In my tiny New Mexican town, the sun splays my shadow against caked earth. We're getting more rain than usual, but the ground still remembers the drought, pulls the rain from the clouds, yanks it deep . . .
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August 23, 2007 09:04 AM EDT --
Thursday, August 23
Wild Card!
Post your best story, poem, or article on writing! A prize (Yes! A real-life prize that I will ship to you!) will be awarded to the piece that I enjoy the most:
The Navajo . . .
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August 04, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
I parked under a sterile pecan tree,
in the lot of a broken wood gas station
that owned the intersection between Socorro and Carrizozo.
My right hand hurt from shifting
past sun cast spruce deer
lurch . . .
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August 02, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
August means wilting dog days, sunburnt shoulders and roasted marshmallows, means the last moments of school vacation twilight. My boys want to stretch the summer, make August last through September, October. . . .
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July 26, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Good Morning! It's Wild Card Thursday in the Writing Essential!
Post your best poems, stories, and reflections on the Writing Life.
I'm in the Windy City at the BlogHer Conference, so my features . . .
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June 21, 2007 07:05 PM EDT --
The sun still sits above my roofline on this longest day of the year. As it drops behind the Rocky Mountains, the crickets will turn up their volume, hum into the fresh tumbleweed that owns my lawn. I . . .
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June 14, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
Next week begins the big Thursday Writing Essential Themes, but I wanted to point out a few wonderful articles posted to the Writing group today. In addition to these stories and articles, there are more . . .
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