That's my unsubtle play on words, since here it is, already my little sister's Birthday, June 9th.
Of course I called her, hush now.
If you've been keeping up with me, you know I've just had major surgery, a full hysterectomy. I've been home for over a week now; I went in on a Wednesday and came home that Friday. Normally I don't heal all that fast, so this amazing turnaround is heartening. Still, I've blocked out my calendar for June and July as Healing months.
Healing is boring sometimes, though, when you can't go outside alone, or drive, and you don't look decent enough to have visitors that aren't related. So I've decided to use a new prompt here, every few days or so, to keep my head moving and the ideas flowing.
I won't keep them to fiction alone, variety is Necessary right now.
First one, below. 'Night night!
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From P&W, my easy source for prompts.
Of course I called her, hush now.
If you've been keeping up with me, you know I've just had major surgery, a full hysterectomy. I've been home for over a week now; I went in on a Wednesday and came home that Friday. Normally I don't heal all that fast, so this amazing turnaround is heartening. Still, I've blocked out my calendar for June and July as Healing months.
Healing is boring sometimes, though, when you can't go outside alone, or drive, and you don't look decent enough to have visitors that aren't related. So I've decided to use a new prompt here, every few days or so, to keep my head moving and the ideas flowing.
I won't keep them to fiction alone, variety is Necessary right now.
First one, below. 'Night night!
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From P&W, my easy source for prompts.
Ten-Second Essays
Read James Richardson’s aphorisms or “ten-second essays." Pick one that resonates with you, and use the aphorism as an epigraph or starting off point for a poem.
11.
ll stones are broken stones.
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Around the edge of the sidewalk, in the street or garden
stones are broken, pieces of hardness
not hard enough to have stayed whole
like your child's heart that still beats in two places--
a half-forgotten past and the idealized future
we were building with curved cast-off tiles
when the moon came down and shattered us, too.
© By Mari Kozlowski, June 9, 2013
11.
ll stones are broken stones.--------------------------
Around the edge of the sidewalk, in the street or garden
stones are broken, pieces of hardness
not hard enough to have stayed whole
like your child's heart that still beats in two places--
a half-forgotten past and the idealized future
we were building with curved cast-off tiles
when the moon came down and shattered us, too.
© By Mari Kozlowski, June 9, 2013
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