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After All (ABC Weds.)
For ABC Wednesday, brought to you by the letter “A as in Amy.” There were two of us on State Street today, plus a Michael and an Alex (who is probably muttering, “A is for Alex, guys”). Also posted at...
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Portrait of Great-grandpa and Mom
I usually don’t revisit the same subject so soon, but Poetic Bloomings had a prompt with such specifics (a great-grandfather, a pocketwatch, a camera, getting film developed) to one I just wrote about...
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Christmas Tree With a Schmear
Poetic Bloomings asked for a poem about traditions; the Sunday Whirl tossed this motley group of words at us: amorous, subtle, genuflect, precipice, inkling, vanilla, mission, December, laden, bark,...
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The Door To Deceitful Delights (dverse)
The Door to Deceitful Delights The door to deceitful delights she discovered within as she was plied with that first fizzy fun punch Pried open wider by a toke of particularly prime pot Finally flung...
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Back and Bad and… Buddah!
Hello all, from our new digs here in Madison, home base for recalling the governor of Wisconsin; protecting the environment of our state and others; protesting the war in Afghanistan (this includes...
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The Call
The Call Upstate Dinner with Sis and Rollie He retired early – stomach ache My hug couldn’t reach around his girth. The phone rang at 4am Mom: “Wake up, Rollie’s at Lourdes.” Flying down the highway…...
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My Irish Roots: Long Ago and Far Away, prose
I love the blog, “Imaginary Garden with Real Toads,” several writers who toss out different prompts. I saw Kerry’s challenge to write from the oral tradition, a story one would tell a small audience...
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Giving Thanks Without Pilgrim Hats
For Poets United, who asked for words about gifts, a different take. MY GIFT TO YOU THIS THANKSGIVING: The gift of awareness, of the lies we have been taught in our schools, of the ways we can open our...
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Family Affair (Jazz Session)
Take Me Back Click on link to play. Amy on keys and vocals, Riley on drumset, Rob on tenor sax. Photo by Donna Dajnowski, used by permission of photographer. FAMILY AFFAIR Mother and daughter...
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Uncle Joe
Watercolor by Joseph William Arcier, my uncle Uncle Joe Rags-to-riches to rags and sandals… The millionaire, bouncing carefree around posh New Canaan in Bermuda shorts. Wife said, “Joe, that’s not...
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Changes (a war poem)
Changes Mail call, salvation in the field Look, another book from my aunt Shit. More poetry and I thought I asked her to send me dirty magazines like she used to for my uncle She says that was another...
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Diva (little cat feet)
Diva (little cat feet) Cats change the landscape of plans. When orphaned Diva poked her head out of hiding, a loving thread filtered from her heart to ours. She sniffs shoes, jumps at her own shadow,...
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Don’t Forget the Mesquite (musings on Hell and Oscar Wilde)
Don’t Forget The Mesquite (musings on Hell and Oscar Wilde) Lots of folks Some in my family say I’m gonna burn in hell ‘cause we love our daughter, gender queer We ring her praise like a bell Hell...
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Halloween for Black Kitty – 6 sentence stories
Halloween for Black Kitty (Six Sentence Stories) Image Courtesy of WikiCommons I don’t understand my peoples today. Kids runnin round in scary cloths and bloody faces like movies. Mommy stackin lots...
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Wisconsin Winter Weather (with pic by Amy)
Artwork © Amy Barlow Liberatore Wisconsin Winter Weather Weather winces Wisconsinites, whether winkled or wrinkled Why would we winter where winds’re wild, wooly? Woven, wistful warmth within © 2013...
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Pre-Wedding Surprise (Rollie, Part I)
Rollie, Amy, and Bob, July 1984 Pre-Wedding Surprise (Rollie, Part I) What a night Jo and Rollie drove down from our hometown to NYC We chowed Chinese, then scrabbled cross Canal A little Italian...
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“…to get a drink?” (Rollie, Part II)
“…to get a drink?!” Rollie was funny as hell but in those days, ‘queer’ jokes were all the rage (except around me) But Rol never made fun of local queens or butch girls who beat the pavement in biker...
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Rattling the Cage (Rollie Triptych, Part III)
Rattling the Cage (Rollie Triptych, Part III) Perfect timing for a horrible outcome On impulse, we drove to Binghamton for a visit Stayed with my folks Call at 5 am, Mom jostled me awake “Rollie’s in...
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Orion, Reimagined (a pleiade)
Orion, Reimagined (a pleiade) In memory of Wilmot Dunn, stargazer Old Grandpa Dunn and Charlotte Out to the telescope shack (over Grandma’s dead body… only money saved, for that?) “On left, three...
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