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Green stockings
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Green stockings

Reclining Woman With Green Stockings by Egon Schiele The drawing was relentless, abandon reaching for extinction. We could not use…

Funeral Food
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Funeral Food

Eating, to comfort sorrow, ease the queasiness of death, atavistic need to feed against the

Just a rabbit in a garden
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Just a rabbit in a garden

This post is for Six Word Saturday Challenge, at Debbie Smyth’s Travel with Intent. # I am fascinated with the…

Wonder Friends
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Wonder Friends

I have a friend who knows the stars who speaks to ravens, chucks otters under chins, owns boots that walk…

Poem: Threading Spring
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Poem: Threading Spring

Can you feel it coming, spring? threading life into soft winds, swirling seeds you cannot see. Do you hear the…

Music walk
Poetry, Prompts and Challenges

Music walk

Here once more, still walking, decades later, alone by my request, to move along the water, difference now with music…

Word Challenges – Until you leave
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Word Challenges – Until you leave

  You can needle me about it but I won’t reverse. I will ignore the jibe, refuse to cede, no…

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