No pithy opening here for poetry tuesday. Just Sylvia Plath, because it’s tuesday, because it’s poetry, because she knew a little something about metaphors and life and living… Metaphors I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s […]
When I wrote this piece last week no matter how I tried I could not figure out what was missing. I knew something was there, straggling along on the side of the margin someplace but I could not put my finger on it. It was puzzling and I felt a little out of my league […]
“The War on Women” is big news these days. It’s “election cycle news.” It’s a tool used by the powerful people to herd us all emotionally in one direction or the other but that does not mean it isn’t real. I feel it. I have always felt the war because the war is always present in […]
May 22, 2012
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