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Tag: The Daily Post
Green Bliss
Many years away Tiny growing unaware Life’s cruel limits __________ In response to The Daily Post prompt: Miniature
When Peaches Aren’t Ripe: 5 Ways Youth Disappointed Me
We give youth everything. We give them looks. We give them brains. We give them energy. We give them political power. And then we sit aside and envy. Oh. If we were young, we’d be beautiful and so brilliant, incandescent in our energy and… Continue Reading “When Peaches Aren’t Ripe: 5 Ways Youth Disappointed Me”
Longing
The city imagines the country The country imagines itself The city itches and aches The country lounges Bedded in feathery green Warmed by tender clouds Unworried Unconscious Of the city’s envy ___________ The Daily Post: Clouds
Duped
Interrupted lives Forest dreams vanished, slashed, shorn Promised new glory _______ The Daily Post: Angry
Siblings
Ten thousand small swings Til the count was lost to us One time will be last _______________ In response to The Daily Post: Countless
Endurance
Patched places layer Hidden only to the bricks Wall lives as before ________ The Daily Post: Brick
Riding High on Hope
Here are eight things that give me hope: I went in the garage this afternoon and saw my bike in all its clunky silver and pink glory locked to the door of an old refrigerator and it made me feel like I did when I was… Continue Reading “Riding High on Hope”
Construction Day
There’s no margin in going with the flow. Going with the flow just gets you downstream with all the other leaves and branches too weak to hold their own. It’s effortless, though. I’ll say that much. Going with the flow is easy. You just sit… Continue Reading “Construction Day”
A Row of Twenty Trumpets
What one thing am I good at? Why stop at one thing? I can think of twenty things I’m good at. I’m good at… Writing things fast. Making decisions with lifelong consequences in minutes. Convincing people to drive down dirt roads. Signing up for… Continue Reading “A Row of Twenty Trumpets”
Intrepid
___________________ In response to The Daily Post’s photo prompt: Share an image evocative of the weather or represent the current “season of your life” in metaphor.
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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