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Monthly Archives: February 2016
bluestockings magazine
A cuckoo coo-coos while flying. Nearby, a congregation of red-throated flycatchers quarrel for space among the bougainvillea vines. I imagine them clustered in a circle around two smaller bi… Source: bluestockings magazine
Hunting for the Neuroscience of Heat and Violence
Economists and psychologists tell us that increased temperatures can drive conflict. Is there any brain science here? Source: Hunting for the Neuroscience of Heat and Violence
Six Nations Rugby in Watercolor
Hello! The second week of the Rugby Six Nations contest went by in something of a blur for me… all of the Dodd household struck down with the mother of all headcolds/flu! Glad to say that we&… Source: Six Nations Rugby in Watercolor
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Laurie Byro’s “Luna”
The Sundress Blog The Lighthouse Keeper The lighthouse keeper kills his mother. It’s the same old story. I walk the neighborhood, head bent low with frost. This could be a crate filled with sea glass. Two poems rubbing against one another on our porch. I’ve abandoned one or both, sharpened my longest nail, filed itContinue reading “The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Laurie Byro’s “Luna””
Losing Paradise, poem by Elizabeth Alford (MY MANE MEMORIES Poetry and Prose Series)
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
Losing Paradise by Elizabeth Alford my hair was once long and too thick — like the swollen-bellied serpent who may not feast again for six months too easily whipped by the merciless wind like a slave who needs one moment just to breathe and seeking respite from split ends…
The Long and Short of It, poem by Robbi Nester (MY MANE MEMORIES Poetry and Prose Series)
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
The Long and Short of It by Robbi Nester Once, I dreaded nothing more than the two words “pixie cut.” Feathery and fey, just barely covering my ears. Wasn’t it bad enough to have the stature of an imp without the haircut too? Like others cursed or blessed with…
We Don’t Have Victories Anymore by Colin Dardis
Originally posted on I am not a silent poet:
A found poem based on the transcript of Donald Trump‘s Presidential Campaign Announcement on June 16th, 2015 ? We don’t have victories anymore. They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time. When did we beat Japan at anything? They beat us all…
A Throwing Back
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Crash
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