Monthly Archives: April 2013

Memory

Posted on April 30, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

I’d like to go to that city and see the man I lost my virginity to. His wife is on Facebook and I’ve seen a picture of them from 2009, with two nieces and his 80-plus-year-old father, whom I knew … Continue reading →

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Poem 29

Posted on April 29, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

Challenge: include an action and an object in every line. Don’t worry about making sense. April is limping to an end leaving in its wake piles of mutilated words, cramped lines and forced rhymes inspiration dries up my eyes itch … Continue reading →

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Dad: A Catalogue

Posted on April 28, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

Pleasure reading: Pride and Prejudice Rex Stout mysteries The Dictionary of Mathematics Required reading: The New York Times Favorite movies: Some Like It Hot A Night at the Opera Favorite foods: Scrapple Pot roast Shad roe Lobster Breyer’s vanilla ice … Continue reading →

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Desperate

Posted on April 27, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

She was the one I blamed things on. We smoked catnip in my closet then moved up to pot. She introduced me to grown men then dated them. I did not. I remained untouched while she threw herself into love … Continue reading →

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Late Middle Age

Posted on April 26, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

It has come to this. I am being hit on by men over 60. Not Sean Connery men over 60 types. No. A skinny guy at the coop slapping price labels With one of those plastic label slapper things. Yeah. … Continue reading →

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Post Office

Posted on April 25, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

Everyone calls in sick at the Post Office today, except for a nice blond woman who is already frazzled by 9:15. She is helping a man send a box which once held vodka and now holds toys. “How many toys?” … Continue reading →

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Swimming

Posted on April 24, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

My mother taught her how to swim my sophisticated friend on a visit to my grandparents When my grandfather fell in the lake my mother had to drive to Boston and left us with some cousins four times our age … Continue reading →

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Halloween

Posted on April 23, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

I wore a sheet wrapped around my fluffy baby blue parka the rain stuck the sheet to the parka and I was a wet ghost My hood up, white fur around my face mittens holding out a pillowcase remembering the … Continue reading →

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Car

Posted on April 22, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

Walking the dog I circle back over the field behind the empty high school parking lot and wait to see my daughter drive for the first time A green Honda zooms in stops with a flourish in the corner of … Continue reading →

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Sonnet

Posted on April 21, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

written in 1979, pre-email, pre-IM, pre-Skype I feel a grief profound within my bones To be from thee exil’d across the sea And separated thus by five time zones– If thou art gone, thy love’s no good to me. Alas, … Continue reading →

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