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10.31.07 Issue XXIX/ Vol. 6
Daughters of the Dirt
/ Sarah Higdon
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by Adrienne Martini
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by Michael Nabert
Bad Mom
by Amy Silverman
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For forty-plus years I’ve gripped tight on the rope of desire, a rip cord in case things don’t work out as planned. Yet, when I watch my son perform his new hockey shot as the sun shines his hair golden through the leaves, or wake at dawn to my body arching with desire for the familiar one next to me, or just wait at a red light and feel the breeze through the open window, I gain courage. I open my hand and let go of my escape plan. And a funny thing happens. The tug-of-war that longing has on me tumbles away. Suddenly, it is clear to me: I have plenty.
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by Amy Silverman
One night, the phone rang. It was the surgeon. I held my breath... and my tongue. He was quiet for a moment, looking at the calendar, figuring out anesthesia, an operating room. Then he had a question. “Do you celebrate Halloween?”
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Have you checked out the blog this week? Lots of bloggidy goodness going on over there. Like:
"at night i
like to lay near my husband, who lays on his back, with my hand across his
scapula, fingers resting on his pulse. i sense the blood moving across his
neck, making him alive. that blood must flow, it is what makes us alive.
mortality is as apparent at 10 pm as it is other times."
"today was a fortune in
the eyes of the night before. this morning i manifested new friends yet i
already dread the long night ahead, for my near future is full of boxes,
some taped by the very hand i rode upon the night before the end of my
life in austin. to unpack them is to remember foolish endeavors and the
present hijinks...it's absurd, really, to expend any effort trying to
understand how i got here or why i came. hey you--yeah YOU. i know i
created this. and it's not because i like to be in pain. i'm just looking
for my bliss, man, and all that matters now is the assimilation of fact
and the proof of my existence is all around to remind me that it must be
done. i don't like being connected to a mess or accused of being tiresome.
i don't judge others for their wanderings or for being lost...i been TCB
on my own for some time now and i got sidekicks to think about. mama's
tired and confused...i wanna be the only one sometimes, that's all."
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The Merry Widow / Sarah Higdon
blood, snot, poo, vomit
no, these don’t bother me now,
kids blunt my senses.
~Catherine Calhoun
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