In Case You Were Wondering

how I feel today: that’s a head.  And it’s exploding.

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spun

“I tell ya, I remember a time when I was about – I was little, I don’t know – 4, 5 something like that. We had this old dog that had a litter of puppies.  And I walked in the bathroom one day and my mother was standing there, kneeling down… dog had a litter [...]

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It’s the meds, I swear

I told someone my daughter was ten. Then I told this person my daughter was nine, very sure of this. My daughter informed me, “mommy, I’m not nine, I’m eight”. She gave me the crazy eye. I forgot to bring tip money for the nice asian girl who does our toenails. I embarrassingly put away [...]

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Friday Poem

Ascension by Cathy Smith Bowers After the hardware salesman, I fell in love with a man who wanted to ascend. All moondrift and solar, washed shore and the nimbused bones of fish, his hands a God-knead, tendering my body’s own brilliant language of grief. Getting my light body, he explained, when I spoke of his [...]

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Dearest Pittsburgh,

I know you and I have had some rough times together. You are the hometown I love and hate at the same time. But today, Pittsburgh, I really effing heart you. March on.

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