tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685637689590808462024-02-08T12:34:02.888-05:00sara of baraSarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-15285576986183927162014-02-08T04:15:00.001-05:002014-02-08T11:05:21.061-05:00Love her so...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Egg_iIuzZv4" width="480"></iframe>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-44771425370864191602014-02-07T17:09:00.001-05:002014-02-07T17:09:57.358-05:00sometimes it's nice here in the middle of town.<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="710" scrolling="no" src="//instagram.com/p/kFaZ8cwXC-/embed/" width="612"></iframe>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-54069919388708897972013-09-04T17:29:00.000-04:002013-09-05T09:15:31.723-04:00skedaddle<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">skedaddle</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span class="pron" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">ski-DAD-l</span> </span><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; position: static;"> , </span><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">verb;</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">1. </span></span></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">run</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">away</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">hurriedly;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">flee.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">2. </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">hasty</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">flight.</span></span><br />
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<span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span>
<span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px; position: static;">off i go to drink again, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">drink </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;">again, off i go to drink </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;">again, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;">drink my cares away</span></span><br />
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<span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">cares away, cares away </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; position: static;">again </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">i go to drink again</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">my cares away i go</span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-85399151065637011672013-09-02T21:33:00.000-04:002013-09-03T12:36:53.064-04:00pari passu<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">pari passu</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span class="pron" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">PAH-ree</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">PAHS-soo;</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">Eng.</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">PAIR-ahy</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">PAS-oo,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">PAIR-ee</span> </span><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\</span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; position: static;">, </span><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">adverb;</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">1. </span></span></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">with</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">equal</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">pace</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">progress;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">side</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">side.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">2. </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">without</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">partiality;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">equably;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">fairly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">the tortoise and the hair</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">blood out of bullet holes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">rain from the cloud-topped sky</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">the pear from the tree</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">rolls down the hill</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">to the country road</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">your truck wheels skip</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">I yelp from a mouth that is mine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">certain you hit something</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">the pieces of the pear</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">shot out at the sides</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">the heart of it thrown</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">into the gutter yarrow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">the sun will bake the rest</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">pear juice moistens the concrete</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">I lay my head on your shoulder</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">concentrate on your one hand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">maneuvering the wheel</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">we are anchored in our seats.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">your knuckles hold tight.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">there is nowhere to go but down.</span></span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-80599471232521415032013-08-31T08:25:00.001-04:002013-09-02T15:12:03.587-04:00gynarchy<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">gynarchy</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span class="pron" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">JIN-er-kee,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">GAHY-ner-,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">JAHY-ner-</span> </span><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\</span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; position: static;">, </span><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">noun;</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;">rule by women or a woman.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">breasts, legs, neck, belly, we rule</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">by more than these. hair toss, eye</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">lash, nipple button: </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">more than these</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">even. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">a suggestion </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">of hips and you are </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">gone. we have two sets </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">of lips to tuck</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">your</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">self into. who is </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">man, then? a rib </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">b</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">one, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">maybe. you are </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">all too willing </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">bones </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">for breaking and more-</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">making</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">.</span><br />
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<span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-13400942993832425022013-08-29T12:02:00.004-04:002013-08-29T12:41:33.977-04:00pittance<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">pittance </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span class="pron" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">PIT-ns</span> </span><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; position: static;"> , </span><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">noun;</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">1. </span></span></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">small</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">amount</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">share.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">2. </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">small</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">amount</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">share.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">3. </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">scanty</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">income</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">remuneration.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">Pity so much that is small is overlooked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">the paperclip the shadow the strand of hair</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">that tickles your shoulder the way I</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">tickled the hairs at your neck do you </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">remember that </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">or the way our fingers </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">touched the way </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">notes are passed secrets </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">exist </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">at the rims of our fingers and who </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">we've </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">kissed and how and where and who </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">was near that bartender that one time</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">she knew in that small way she tipped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">her head to look away such small things</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">can be so important pity these moments</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">pity those moments gone by pity</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">small numbers that represent years</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 16px; position: static;">those small numbers represent years</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">three sixty five is not enough and yet pity</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">it would never have been enough.</span></span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-69520214423891185792013-08-26T21:18:00.001-04:002013-08-26T21:18:09.294-04:00quincunx<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="hw" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>quincunx</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"> \KWING-kuhngks, KWIN-\</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">noun</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;">: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;">1. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;">an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;">2. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 17.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Botany.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"> an overlapping arrangement of five petals or leaves, in which two are interior, two are exterior, and one is partly interior and partly exterior.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.5px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.5px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If I am partly interior and partly</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">exterior, what does that mean for the trees?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sure, they live longer;</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;"> their skin </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">needs </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">to be that tough. T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">hey know it isn't </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">safe to reveal</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;"> their beating hearts though</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">they are pumping more blood</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">than you or I. And each leaf</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">that falls from their branches is more</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">than a loss. They cannot even stoop</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to pick them up again. These parts</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lay on the ground and disintegrate</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and they cannot even watch. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">And then, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.5px;">from within them, they must feel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">new ones sprout, push themselves out,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">glittering and soft. None the same and yet</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">all of them known. And the green</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">would make the tree weep, if it only could.</span></span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-62187243588079916532013-08-21T22:33:00.002-04:002013-09-02T15:12:50.655-04:00gibbous<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">gibbous </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span class="pron" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">GIB-uhs</span> </span><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; position: static;"> , </span><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">adjective;</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span class="pron pos" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: italic;"><span style="position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">1. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">Astronomy.</span> </span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; position: static;"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">(of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">heavenly</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">body)</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">convex</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">at</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">both</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">edges,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">as</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">moon</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">when</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">more</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">than</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">half</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">full.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">2. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">humpbacked</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">A humpbacked moon does </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">turn </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">its back on us at night, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">huddles </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">its shoulders. a dull shade </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">and a grin, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">while he hides </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">the bright bulb.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">What the sun must think of him: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">lover no longer known. She shines </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">because there is nothing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">else to do, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">nothing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">else for it. Were they not</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">always </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">doomed? For instance, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">it is always the moon </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">with you. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">of street lamps and so many stars. </span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-48994508343063081962013-01-05T17:01:00.001-05:002013-01-05T17:01:29.527-05:00<br />
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The Return</h1>
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how the grass smells,
married to the dark
soil crumbling in your hands?
When the sun makes a bed for you to lie in?
When a voice you've never heard
has missed you,
singing down your bones--
<i>it's taken so long to get here.</i>
Now I'm breathing in the mountains
as if I'd never left.
And when I go inside
I'm surprised to see a lime green worm
has landed on my shorts,
inching his way across a strange white country.
He stops and rises,
leaning out of himself--
a tiny periscope
peering from the glow of the underdream
where there are no symbols for death.
He looks around.
I place my index finger
at the tip of what I guess to be his head,
though I don't see an eye or an ear,
or the infinitesimal feet
as he crawls across my palm--
a warmer planet.
Lately I've wondered
what hand guides my way when I am lost.
I can't feel him
though I see him rise again,
survey the future, flat
and broken into five dead ends.
I curl my fingers to make a cup
and carry him like a blessing to the garden--
What will happen next is a mystery--
to be so light in the world, to leave no tracks.</pre>
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Souvenir</h1>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: x-small;" valign="top"><pre style="font-family: verdana, arial, 'lucida sans', helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;">Though we vacationed in a castle, though I
rode you hard one morning to the hum
of bees that buggered lavender, and later
we shared gelato by a spotlit dome
where pigeons looped like coins from a parade--
we weren’t transported back to newlyweds.
We only had a week, between new jobs,
we both were pinched with guilt at leaving Claire.
When, in our most expensive, most romantic meal,
you laid your sunburned hand upon your heart,
it was just to check the phone was on.
When the trip was good as over--when the train
would take us overnight to Rome, the flight
would take us home--I had the unimportant
moment I keep having. I wonder if
we choose what we recall?
The train
was unromantic, smoky. We found a free
compartment, claimed the two bench seats, and eyed
the door. Italians who peered in and saw
your shoes, my auburn hair, our <i>Let’s Go: Rome</i>,
soon found another car. And we were glad.
But then, reluctantly, two couples entered,
settled suitcases on laddered racks,
exchanged some cautious greetings, chose their spots.
Then each one turned to snacks and magazines.
The miles scrolled by like film into its shell.
Night fell. Each took a toothbrush down the hall.
Returned. Murmured to the one he knew.
The man beside the window pulled the shade.
We each snapped off our light, slunk down until
our kneecaps almost brushed. And shut our eyes.
Entwined I found us, waking in the dark.
Our dozen interwoven knees, when jostled,
swayed, corrected, swayed the other way.
Knuckles of praying hands were what they seemed.
Or trees in old growth forests, familiarly
enmeshed, one mass beneath the night wind’s breath.
Or death, if we are good, flesh among flesh,
without self consciousness, for once.
Husband,
five years husband, you slept, our fellow travelers
slept, scuttling through black time and blacker space.
As we neared the lighted station, I closed my eyes.
Had I been caught awake, I would have moved. </pre>
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Civilization</h1>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: x-small;" valign="top"><pre style="font-family: verdana, arial, 'lucida sans', helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;">There's an art
to everything. How
the rain means
April and an ongoingness like
that of song until at last
it ends. A centuries-old
set of silver handbells that
once an altar boy swung,
processing...<i>You're the same
wilderness you've always
been, slashing through briars,
the bracken
of your invasive
self</i>. So he said,
in a dream. But
the rest of it—all the rest—
was waking: more often
than not, to the next
extravagance. Two blackamoor
statues, each mirroring
the other, each hoisting
forever upward his burden of
hand-painted, carved-by-hand
peacock feathers. <i>Don't
you know it, don't you know
I love you</i>, he said. He was
shaking. He said:
<i>I love you</i>. There's an art
to everything. What I've
done with this life,
what I'd meant not to do,
or would have meant, maybe, had I
understood, though I have
no regrets. Not the broken but
still-flowering dogwood. Not
the honey locust, either. Not even
the ghost walnut with its
non-branches whose
every shadow is memory,
memory...As he said to me
once, <i>That's all garbage
down the river, now</i>. Turning,
but as the utterly lost—
because addicted—do:
resigned all over again. It
only looked, it—
It must only look
like leaving. There's an art
to everything. Even
turning away. How
eventually even hunger
can become a space
to live in. How they made
out of shamelessness something
beautiful, for as long as they could.</pre>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-40618549766462532132012-08-01T01:21:00.000-04:002012-08-27T01:38:08.147-04:00incondite<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>incondite</b>\ in-KON-dit \ , <i>adjective</i>;<br /><br />1. Ill-constructed; unpolished: <i>incondite prose</i>.<br />2. Crude; rough; unmannerly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Innocent, inconstant combat: a friend</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">follows a blood trail through her kitchen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">a torn orange peel on the counter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">a closet door ajar, ominous.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">I picture this at a table while my family plays cards</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">holding at least twelve in my hand.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">I fiddle with the corners as if petting the feathers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">of a bird, only these ones click and they could never </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">take flight. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">They would fall to the floor, splay</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">and flip and the jumble of colors and numbers </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">would no longer </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">make </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">sense. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Can you imagine </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">such a thing? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Your clothes lain across your bed, wondering</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">if their fingers had touched them, had they </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">put them to their faces and breathed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">as if the clean scent could act as chloroform</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">wanting at last to drift into a peaceful sleep,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">pretend for a few unconscious moments that such a bed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">could be theirs, such a home, like when they were children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">who could go outside, leave their lawn without</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">snagging their skin on crude spirals of barbed wire,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">and the dog at their heels was their dog and the sound </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">of their mother calling them home was sweet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-68772496409304526552012-07-22T10:55:00.001-04:002012-07-31T18:14:09.565-04:00integument<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>integument</b> \ in-TEG-yuh-muhnt \ , noun;<br />A natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Secrets are made to do this<br />Though a snake without its scales<br />still appears a snake.<br /><br />The people on the street<br />set up their tents and tables<br />call their dog Shit and stretch their muscles.<br /><br />There will be more jello shots today<br />more beer, crisp duck bacon, fried<br />green farm eggs, and all of this is good.<br /><br />The band that plays by the river lifts,<br />mystifies the dragonflies<br />who will understand even less why they spin,<br /><br />like the girls in pink, ballerina dresses<br />fascinated by the upward curve of a small bridge<br />cannot stop from skipping over it<br /><br />while the mothers watch from behind their cigarettes<br />and red Solo cups,<br />caressing their fingertips with their lips.</span></span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-73917666705429503652012-07-10T15:48:00.002-04:002012-07-22T10:42:56.307-04:00dewlap<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>dewlap</b> [doo-lap, dyoo-], noun:<br />a pendulous fold of skin under the throat of a bovine animal.<br /><br /><br />Take it apart, slowly. Dew. Lap. <br />Sit against a tree in twilight and wait for it.<br />The crickets will deliver it,<br />a telegram <br />scratched between legs.<br />You will wake to the sound of cicadas<br />and think of frost<br />but your hands will sink into slick grass.<br />Think mud <br />and dig your finger into the spongy soil,<br />hope for a worm to show you how it is<br />possible to be both directions,<br />to risk tearing apart,<br />to repair. Though you may want to squeeze off <br />its head, don't do it. Know, <br />in order to properly suffer,<br />one must be alone in the wilderness.<br />Come apart slowly.</span><br />Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-11558585271213716602012-06-23T13:49:00.000-04:002012-07-23T17:29:59.220-04:00chockablock<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Didot;"><b>chockablock</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Didot;"> [CHOK-uh-BLOK]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">extremely full; crowded; jammed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">are the wall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">at the end of the end of it all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">pulped </span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-9856067124456918752012-05-09T21:57:00.002-04:002012-05-15T11:50:32.901-04:00cicatrix<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cicatrix \ SIK-uh-triks \, noun;<br />1. New tissue that forms over a wound.<br />2. Botany. A scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Oh that a fallen leaf could cause a scar<br />such as this one, or a dent the size <br />of a seed. What have you planted here? <br /><br />The music tries to rub my leg with its tail <br />but I'm not feeling anything today, although<br />for the first time, I hear the small watch ticking.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />When you hit the crystal face, there is<br />such delicate clicking.</span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-927368083533554332012-05-08T23:23:00.000-04:002012-05-10T13:29:32.732-04:00class assignment #4<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"We'll even make poetry from those things most scorned by the arbiters of good taste." ~ P. Neruda</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sitting at my desk again is the monitor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the tape, the stapler, ah, the paperclips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inside the stout glass bowl, its lid tipped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like a hat, the handle an inverted core.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chair's sad job is to hold my butt up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn't like it, you see, it squeaks meanly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just look at you, you dumb coffee cup,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">your eggplant ceramic skin gleams,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">subtly excited for my touch. But the mason jar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has emptied its soul to the dropped ceiling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or was it before I took you home from the bar?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your mouth filled to the brim with feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the margarita likes a salty laugh,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the coffee wants is a little half and half.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-84463155628260737172012-04-25T17:03:00.000-04:002012-06-18T15:11:00.920-04:00barnburner<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>barnburner</b> [BAHRN-bur-ner], <i>noun</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Something that is highly exciting or impressive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Barnburner, you brought down </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our house. No, rather, you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">rearranged it, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">changed it </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">from the inside out. The younger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">me would barely be able to recognize</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">itself anymore. The rooms </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">have changed, the floor, the ceiling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The floor is now the ceiling. It's skin </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">stripped and varnished. You put the kitchen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">where I used to make my papers work,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">replaced the window I used </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to let my mind wander out of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to where the fish in the pond you dug,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">placed stones around, now swim</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and pander amorously for my mother </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and the empty bench that falls </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">apart slowly with time waits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">under the apple tree you haven't </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">yet uprooted.</span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-44436261463837656232012-04-24T23:33:00.000-04:002012-06-19T11:39:12.090-04:00fard<br />
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<b>fard</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #707070; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><span class="prondelim" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #707070; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><span class="pron">fahrd</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #707070; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><span class="prondelim" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]</span></span> <i>noun</i></div>
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to apply cosmetics</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Funny how<i> farding</i> sounds so much like<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>farting</i>. But isn't it inappropriate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the way some women do it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You watch them in the mornings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">on the subway or bus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">making those wide-open faces:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ridiculous mouths yawning,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">eyes agape. These women</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">attack themselves with wands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">like miniature, bristled trees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and pointed pencils like javelins.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you want to be seen, I see you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I cannot help but look at you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Your queer expressions mesmerize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">like actors in black and white movies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When the subway car jolts, will you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">juggle your eyeball before it lands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">on the floor? Or will your hands fly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to your mouth, painted with surprise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and shaped with a harlot's O?</span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-57216878597440788772012-04-23T22:29:00.002-04:002012-04-24T12:01:49.314-04:00germinal<br />
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<b>germinal </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="pron" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; position: static;">JUR-muh-nl</span> </span><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">\</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;">,</span></span> <i style="font-weight: normal;">adjective</i>:</div>
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being in the earliest stage of development</div>
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Being in the earliest stage of development,</div>
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I do not judge you a veteran of my heart.</div>
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You do not know the way it chimes </div>
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When the wind blows and the sky is turning gray.</div>
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How its pipes are like brass cylinders that hang</div>
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Around the wooden center upon which they bang.</div>
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But being in the earliest stage of development</div>
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They do not bang yet. No.</div>
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The wind from the mountains has not yet sunk</div>
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Into this valley where my heart waits to be moved</div>
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Hovering above the un-mowed ground</div>
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Only the grasses sway minutely in the calmness.</div>
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In this earliest stage of us, I will not warn you</div>
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Of the gales that can not merely be called wind,</div>
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Nor of the storms, or the wailing in the night of the coyotes</div>
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That circle the foundations where I live.<br />
For now, just listen to the hesitant hoot of the owls,</div>
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Tucked into their branches in the star-studded evening.</div>
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obtuse <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">\uhb-TOOS\</span></span> (<i>adjective</i>):</div>
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1. not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect.</div>
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2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.</div>
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3. (of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity.</div>
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Being only a few, tall trees in the yard</div>
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There wasn't much for us to hide under.</div>
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Only one tall evergreen, one bristly mother</div>
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With her skirt that dragged the ground.</div>
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Being too much a cold, unwelcoming thing,</div>
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We never ventured into her folds</div>
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More than once before learning our lesson -</div>
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The kind only nature can teach so well.</div>
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No, we mostly stayed in the shadows</div>
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Of the fencerow, tree-lined, swampy, lush,</div>
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Where birds fluttered inside the nestles</div>
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Of briar bushes, and hairy bogs protruded</div>
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Like stepping stools. They led to small clearings, </div>
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Areas of sudden openness, as if the woods</div>
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Had created a room for us to exist in alone,</div>
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Where we could not hear our mothers.</div>
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We were never supervised, you and I.</div>
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Hard to believe now, a girl and a boy, so left</div>
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Explorers, building forts out of pillows</div>
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Much nature had given us to discover.</div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-15824230101372998592012-04-17T23:51:00.000-04:002012-04-17T23:54:43.777-04:00We've Lost That Squeaky Feeling (another filler)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">These clean, neat wooden slats</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That make up the floor remind me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of Mohonk's main dining r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oom, how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Expansive it felt when e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">mpty, how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Small when filled w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ith people</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the talk and the clatter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They brought with them, how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I cleaned, swept those floors, how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The sound my shoes made</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Echoed a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cross the boards,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ifferent t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he old, lazy linoleum</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of a diner can be w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ithout sound.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How empty our booth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just inside and t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">o the right o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">f the door.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How I waited w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ith a glass o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">f water, cold,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ice floating a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">t the top, l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ike I could never do</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As a child, h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ow </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I dove, though, how I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Positioned m</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">y knobby body o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">n the long,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">White b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oard, how I a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">rched my arms t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">o slice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Through a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ir, t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hrough water, through</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To the vinyl f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">loor. How I rubbed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The dents and the dips in its skin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With my fingertips, how I imagined</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I heard s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">queaking. Like how a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> poet can keep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Caressing a difficult word, t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">rying to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> eek</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Something out of it - and fail.</span>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-23926303258283185442012-04-16T17:33:00.000-04:002012-04-18T14:16:56.590-04:00(a filler poem)<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Headphones, drowning out the quiet morning; all the silent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bony throat. The mouth opens and it flies out, singing. The
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Echoing a wistful loneliness that isn’t quite melancholy.</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-73328364215573897072012-04-14T11:16:00.000-04:002012-04-24T16:23:58.679-04:00irriguous<b>ir·rig·u·ous</b> [ih-rig-yoo-uhs] <i>adjective</i><br />
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Archaic . well-watered, as land.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Growing up, my mother had no green<br />Thumb, although we had a garden, a 3-<br />Acre yard, everything we touched, wilted,<br />Turned yellow, no matter how well-watered.<br />Sometimes, even the well went dry<br />Filling the pool, forgetting the hose was still<br />Running - a stream, a clear tongue forever<br />Lapping into the surface, losing itself<br />In the deeper water. Wet into wet, one body<br />Into another. I dove into it, but mine<br />Stayed the same. My water, trapped<br />Inside my tight, child's skin, hitting<br />The bottom, bouncing off with my feet,<br />Resilient. Bobbing. My own little island.</span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068563768959080846.post-18096203493314803992012-04-12T13:49:00.000-04:002012-04-18T16:37:55.441-04:00macaronic<b>mac·a·ron·ic</b> [mak-uh-ron-ik], <i>adjective</i><br />
1. composed of a <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mixture">mixture</a> of languages.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Tower of Babel falls</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With everyone in it. There seems to be</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One loud, discernible scream</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Meaning fear, meaning death,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Meaning empty-headed jealousy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who can die more enviably?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Most delicately? Who will dive?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whose body, whose bones</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Will land expressively</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So that all of Man and not only </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">God will understand?</span></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338855441193360850noreply@blogger.com0