Monthly Archives: April 2015

Check This Spot

Ingrid’s Great Southwest Adventure begins tomorrow. It’s Thelma and Louise, only geriatric. And driving a diesel truck instead of a convertible. Katie, bar the door!  

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GPS

My Queen. That’s what he calls me sometimes. Or Morgana. Or Witch. It’s all true you know. I was all of these things. And these words of endearment excite electrons in the ether lights going on and off a blinking … Continue reading

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Charlotte

Charlotte.  Her name was Charlotte. She was 23  when she was sold for $600 to my 3rd great grandfather and left New Orleans for the plantation in Natchitoches. Besides her name and price I know little else, except the shame … Continue reading

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April Rains

Silver-tongued devil. You’ve talked your way back into my first thoughts charmed your way back into my last thoughts and into in-between thoughts and into my prayers as though you never left at all as   though   I   … Continue reading

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Haikus

Dreams My head rests dreaming on the firmness of your chest of memory foam.

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Going Deeper

Going deeper. that’s what you wanted and I couldn’t do it. Not then. I was too young, too thin, too beautiful, too desireable – convinced that all of those things that even you and I would last forever. Believing, I … Continue reading

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King-Sized Changes

I awoke this morning in the middle of the bed. It’s happened a couple of times now. A little lost Disoriented A momentary panic with legs tangled in sheets. They tell you when you lose a spouse a significant other … Continue reading

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