Monthly Archives: July 2012

On the dock

Posted on July 12, 2012 by aliceinbloggingland

A skinny boy stretches off the dock for the highest branch of the blueberry bush.  His pinkish white skin glows against the shadows in the bush, and his arm crooks around the crooked branch to clasp a handful of berries. … Continue reading →

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Empire State Walk

Posted on July 10, 2012 by aliceinbloggingland

Ellen decided to walk the twenty blocks to her lab in the Empire State Building that morning.  It was a fine day, Manhattan sparkling as it does with possibility.  She needed to wade through that charged layer of city hum … Continue reading →

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Absentee

Posted on July 10, 2012 by aliceinbloggingland

A month before she died, my mother signed her absentee ballot firmly, though she could no longer see very well.  The ten letters of her name spilled in a zigzag down the margin of the brown ballot, careening off the … Continue reading →

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