Velvet Hammer
April 30, 2011from a nondescript apartment buzzing with energy and filled with books couch arms shredded by ungrateful cats sitting amongst her […] [continue…]
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Good writing, with a strong point and with life oozing out.
from a nondescript apartment buzzing with energy and filled with books couch arms shredded by ungrateful cats sitting amongst her […] [continue…]
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Too rarely she goes out to the protestant screams of her three biggest fans but not before she creates dinner […] [continue…]
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she sits at the brink of summer facing the setting sun flowers in her fine hair many more sunsets ahead […] [continue…]
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impish grin peeking out from behind a fork glinty blue eye concealed by disheveled hair eyebrows raised in anticipation she […] [continue…]
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presented with a page of small photos, I’m supposed to furrow my brow and take note of developmental milestones but […] [continue…]
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before you were born I had this dream of you and your sisters older, and driving cars yours wasn’t working […] [continue…]
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cold in the grave he lay molecules toward disorder consumed by tiny parasitic life bearing the disappointment of a movement […] [continue…]
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on a dreary damp day bereft of light our wounds are open our questions unanswered our dreams forsaken our plans […] [continue…]
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there are 20-foot walls surrounding my house solid concrete topped with razor wire blocking my view and my vision cutting […] [continue…]
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there is an art to doing nothing with managing expectations of a day spent home with three kids for when […] [continue…]
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they call it The Gap but it gives little margin for error white line inches from the precipice snaking up […] [continue…]
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you’ve come through some stormy waters, dear Jacob but now you have found safe harbor surrounded by four –and many […] [continue…]
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children are many things troubling, stressful affirming, enlightening exhausting, maddening inspiring, encouraging reflective of our worst traits hopeful and full […] [continue…]
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sometimes a shed is just a shed an imperfect place to put things four walls and a roof a blog […] [continue…]
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I was honored today to have a poem featured at Texas Schmexas, a blog by Elizabeth Sands Wise which describes […] [continue…]
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