Category Archives: Women’s Liberation

#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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Ecstasy (albeit brief) in Awards!

What a surprise in my email! “You won!”  Georgia and I decided to send the book out during the first of the year flurry of deadlines, and I found this local contest. Now every poet and their grandma will be … Continue reading

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Femmiesteria???

I had a lengthy conversation and a good cup of coffee with my neighbor Richard Ward, an author recently published in the local journal, Bosque 7, and Richard, having recently spent two years in South America, was fairly hot under … Continue reading

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1977 Arroyo Seco, NM, (at the foot of Taos Ski Valley)

This must have been the winter when it snowed in October and the ground stayed white until May. And I dressed in layers. Under those jeans, some thick long johns, bottom and top, and then the pretty frock, one of … Continue reading

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30 things I learned from Dr. RW (and a stray sage or two)

(MM and Amos) My dad was visiting us at the dome, our home in Taos in 1980, just before relocating to Alamogordo, NM. His station wagon, my blue Dodge pick-up. What I remember from Dr. Robert Waterman, Ed. D., LCC, … Continue reading

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Hippie Easter Egg Matanza

Chris, Pilar, Michelle, and Amos 1974–ish (the 60s are ending) This came to me, a gesture from someone at the event, a rare photo of my son age two and a half. He was so stylin in his little Peruvian … Continue reading

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No Job, No Pay, No Way

No job, no pay, no way In spite of he can’t read in spite of Roe v Wade in spite and spit on his feet, in spite of feel retreat or kill in spite of Gloria’s smile gone south in … Continue reading

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