Category Archives: Musings

Greater Chaco fundraiser

  I read my poem “The Tour or Fracking is Fracking” at the Greater Chaco fundraiser, Saturday May 12, at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Thank you to Jules and John for the anthology and for donating copies of Water to the … Continue reading

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swimming upstream NaPoWriMo #30

Slatted blinds, oak, broken, dog chewed, replaced last year with European lace. “Old lady curtains,” my daughter said. But I love them.   The house is our heartbeat, our job like vagabonds given blossoms to bathe in, dust and roses, … Continue reading

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For Eleanor NaPoWriMo #24

For Eleanor, a confabulation of stories April 23, 2018 by merimee   She really did look pretty with the angora shawl arranged around her turquoise top It brought out the blue in her eyes that must’ve made many a man … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 18

Those paths you’d rather not take?   Well, someone’s on them. A woman in a fake hospital, a medical money collecting agency that squeezes every dime out of crime against the ill: negligence, incompetence unkind roughness—lifting my friend by her … Continue reading

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Hippie (NaPoWriMo #9 & 10)

Hippie, well, yes, but by Merimee I wasn’t a very hip hippie— imposter—I liked beer and Louie Martini more than Acapulco Gold. I loved vintage clothes living freely, impulsively, loving whom I pleased (myself) to love.   I liked the … Continue reading

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Embrace #8 NaPoWriMo 2018

Embrace an English teacher today. At least think about it: her eyes like dos puntos: period period.. His member an exclamation incarnate! The vehicle of Interjections! Speculate on ellipses and spaces: drafting, practice, practice. Imagine an English teacher, Mr. So … Continue reading

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#5 & # 6 NaPoWriMo 2018

#5 & #6                        April 6, 2018  mm The year of my first daughter, Jorie Graham’s Erosion— I still have little time to read the stacks and piles, glean an education that in the end does not surpass the births, … Continue reading

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#4 New Flame

Have I secretly been saving them up to look at later The women who made it into the grind and out the press?   Oh that my dad had shown me Maxine Kumin those years he was stuck on Ralph … Continue reading

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#3 Plan E (for escape)

Plan E Write to lull the listeners (homework) Sleep dissolves anxieties (awake at 3) Good blood, good cells (well, maybe) have a job to do (retired!) Anticipate harmony, anticipate (why wait?) matrimony, anticipate (beware!) walking away from bad (ummm “bad”?) … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2018

1. Birds sing the sun up Purple majesties and all, a finely drawn brow

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