Gingerbread Lady
, no sugar or cinnamon spice; years ago arthritis and senility took their toll. Crippled mind moves in then out, like an old sexual adventure blurred…
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Harvest Time
A Métis Indian lady, drunk, hands blanketed as in prayer, over a large brown fruit basket naked of fruit, no vine, no vineyard inside-approaches the Edmonton,…
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Charlie Plays a Tune
Crippled, in Chicago, with arthritis and Alzheimer's, in a dark rented room, Charley plays melancholic melodies on a dust filled harmonica he found abandoned on a…
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Nikki Purrs
Soft nursing 5 solid minutes of purr paws paddling like a kayak competitor against ripples of my 60 year old river rib cage- I feel like…
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Rod Stroked Survival with a Deadly Hammer
Rebecca fantasized that life was a lottery ticket or a pull of a lever, that one of the bunch in her pocket was a winner or…
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Mother Edith at 98
Edith, in this nursing home blinded with macular degeneration, I come to you with your blurry eyes, crystal sharp mind, your countenance of grace- as yesterday's…