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by Nancy Lou Canyon, MFANancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-63693933125881496472023-03-28T12:43:00.001-07:002023-03-28T12:43:04.712-07:00Poet for the Land<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgut7aHZq2VI11W7KAsGB5_TJpQI5sU1xCRkRNgEY-Kd4MXswLwBEFkcvDqelaif-gi5wIwEjwdMIK4jFP1dgIngkhaKRY_1nEtlg0IzjPRZtff6jXonDukcQew0eq4z_biJgoRkDqP0nibcJyia4G23k7lZD8GUEWLGY6D9xLXTh3W14Ip9hKqKpfVtw/s2944/20230211_124059.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="2944" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgut7aHZq2VI11W7KAsGB5_TJpQI5sU1xCRkRNgEY-Kd4MXswLwBEFkcvDqelaif-gi5wIwEjwdMIK4jFP1dgIngkhaKRY_1nEtlg0IzjPRZtff6jXonDukcQew0eq4z_biJgoRkDqP0nibcJyia4G23k7lZD8GUEWLGY6D9xLXTh3W14Ip9hKqKpfVtw/s320/20230211_124059.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nancy Canyon, Writing the Land Poet<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p>As a Writing the Land poet, I adopted Todd Creek, a Whatcom Land Trust parcel, last year, my one year tenure beginning May 2022. The program is through a group called NatureCulture, pairing land trust parcels with poets. I have written many poems about the river, the creek, the floods, the river silt, dead trees, growing trees, and all those rocks you see beside me. It is a beautiful parcel the Land Trust is protecting. </p><p>Writing the Land poets turn in three poems each, and a recording of reading one. They are then published in books that are available online. See the book for the northeast poets here: <a href="https://uvlt.org/product/writing-the-land-northeast-poetry-anthology/">https://uvlt.org/product/writing-the-land-northeast-poetry-anthology/</a></p><p>Yesterday, when we went out to Todd Creek (it's about 45 minutes from our home in Bellingham, WA) while my husband, a land steward,clipped invasive species I wrote words in a little book for future poems as I walked along the access road and then along the beach. </p><p>The access road seems part of the experience to me, as it rounds a field of corn where bee hives are placed in the summer. There are also trees that have been planted along the road on the right that are about 20' tall now. The range from fir, grand fir, spruce, to cedar. They are quite beautiful.</p><p>The Todd Creek parcel has many planted saplings with blue cones surrounding them. Some are thiving, some are surviving, and some are dead. I can see this parcel shaded by tall trees in the future. It will be a great protection for the river, for wildlife, and for the land itself.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFViaGgqiM_Iy4CPhkpCWGfjwg6lHK9AeQlUgPV72oFTRou4-nhWUI6N5QXVJEdSohGzCkspy-qdPN4SYDfxzShbbSYwr4EIfb1hfU-GYQf5WAyGo-qLymlqD-1IbRSyMXpMANPCFmK6a1FTCBtEkpwiTOh9-zhhs3F8LjhjsEOiVY5yzUcxDlckC1w/s4032/20230211_121626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="4032" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFViaGgqiM_Iy4CPhkpCWGfjwg6lHK9AeQlUgPV72oFTRou4-nhWUI6N5QXVJEdSohGzCkspy-qdPN4SYDfxzShbbSYwr4EIfb1hfU-GYQf5WAyGo-qLymlqD-1IbRSyMXpMANPCFmK6a1FTCBtEkpwiTOh9-zhhs3F8LjhjsEOiVY5yzUcxDlckC1w/s320/20230211_121626.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>If you get a chance, go to the NatureCulture site and see what the poets are doing, I'm sure you will be impressed.</p><p>Best in poetry,</p><p>Nancy Canyon</p>Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-12410784649517274832022-08-22T13:17:00.001-07:002022-08-22T13:17:48.665-07:00STRUCK: A MEMOIR by Nancy Canyon (Coming Soon)<a href="https://nancycanyon.com/struck-a-memoir-by-nancy-canyon-coming-soon/">STRUCK: A MEMOIR by Nancy Canyon (Coming Soon)</a><div><br /></div><div><div id="main-content" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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width: 795.156px;" width="940" /></a></figure></figure><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">STRUCK EXCERPT:</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">On Corral Hill Lookout at 6,000 feet, we watch for smoke, which might not be visible if a lightning strike catches fuel beneath the ground—a bigger fire waiting to happen once ignited by oxygen-rich air. Our boss, Arizona, says the roots can burn for a long time. Sometimes, in the forest, ground collapses into the space where a root once took up room—and a hole is left beneath the forest floor. </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Above or below the surface, fire calls to me. I have stared into beach fires, campfires, and at the blazing logs in the resort lobby stone fireplace. I’ve stared at Presto logs burning in my family’s fireplace, pine sticks burning in the kitchen trash burner and in the converted oil stove in the living room of the Old Mare house where I lost the baby.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting fires is one of my gifts. Once I caught my hair on fire when I leaned too close to a candle while looking through a microscope. And the bottom of a frypan, once super heated, went poof—blue flames leapt up the sides and just as quickly died out. When I was in high school, a plastic platter in the oven to keep the meat warm, accidently got turned to broil. Shortly that plate was popping and melting and making a horrible stink, filling the kitchen with toxic smoke. Dad grabbed the platter with a potholder, ran it outside, flinging it into the backyard. We went out for hamburgers that night.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">When Jack and I were first together I caught my apartment on fire. We’d made several mushroom-shaped candles on the beach at Priest Lake. Though I’d blown out the one I was burning, the string-wick reignited, starting my kitchen table on fire, the curtains, and then the entire kitchen wall went up in flames.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">We weren’t gone long, just downstairs visiting our friend, Michael. I’d blown out the candle before we left. Time passed, and I began to smell smoke. When I got to the top of the stairs, smoke was pouring out from beneath my apartment door. Jack ran in and my cat ran out. While he tried to douse the blazing kitchen table with water tossed from glasses I’d left setting in the sink, the fireman passed me on the stairs. I was bawling my eyes out and hugging Jude, who wasn’t harmed, thank goodness. Inside, they hosed down the wall and tossed the burning table out the second story window in a volley of sparks. All that remained was a charred stink and blackened walls. We sanded and painted, but in the end, I had to move into another apartment.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Now we stand on the catwalk watching heat rise off the forest. The eerie high-pitched cry of a red-tailed hawk sends a shiver down my spine. There’s something a little frightening about heat. It just keeps going and going, melting pavement, scorching skin, damaging paint jobs, and crisping the forest….</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Nancy Canyon, MFA</span>, creates in a studio overlooking Bellingham Bay. Her paintings, poetry, and prose are widely published: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Adventures NW</em>, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Sue C. Boynton, True Stories II-IV,</em> <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Raven Chronicles</em>, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Floating Bridge Review, Cirque, & For the Love of Orcas Anthology, </em>to name a few. Nancy coaches for <a href="https://www.thenarrativeproject.net/the-program" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Narrative Project </a>and teaches writing for Chuckanut Writers. Her memoir manuscript <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“Struck: A Memoir,”</span> details Nancy’s work as a lookout attendant in the Clearwater National Forest in the 70s. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Celia’s Heaven</em> (novel) & <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Saltwater (poetry)</em> are available at <a href="http://villagebooks.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ea3f2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Village Books</a>. </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Please </span>sign up for my blog posts with helpful writing tips, excerpts from my stories, and links to my classes and events. 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font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="dl-book-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: 1rem;"><a class="pst_thumb img" data-caption="" href="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Celias-Heaven-IMAGE-e1594931033676.jpg" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" title="Link To CELIA’s HEAVEN by Nancy Canyon – Magic Realism, Family Saga, Contemporary Literature"><span class="c_img" itemprop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="150" itemprop="thumbnailUrl" sizes="(max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px" src="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Celias-Heaven-IMAGE-97x150.jpg" srcset="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Celias-Heaven-IMAGE-97x150.jpg 97w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Celias-Heaven-IMAGE-194x300.jpg 194w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Celias-Heaven-IMAGE-200x309.jpg 200w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Celias-Heaven-IMAGE-e1594931033676.jpg 259w" style="background: rgb(233, 233, 233); border: 5px solid rgb(243, 243, 243); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: top;" width="97" /></span></a></div><div class="dl-book-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px !important; min-height: 150px;"><div class="rating" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="value-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="5"></span>Rating: <img src="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/themes/Avada-Child-Theme/images/stars_5.png" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><div class="dl-title title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Title: <span class="item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="fn" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.chantireviews.com/2020/07/17/celias-heaven-by-nancy-canyon-magic-realism-family-saga-contemporary-literature/" itemprop="url" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Celia's Heaven</a></span></span></div><div class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Author(s): <span itemprop="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.chantireviews.com/book_author/nancy-canyon/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Nancy Canyon</a></span></div><div class="genre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Genre(s): <span itemprop="genre" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.chantireviews.com/genre/family-saga/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Family Saga</a>, <a href="https://www.chantireviews.com/genre/magic-realism/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Magic Realism</a>, <a href="https://www.chantireviews.com/genre/paranormal-romance/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Paranormal Romance</a></span></div><div class="publisher" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Publisher: Penchant Press International (April 30, 2020)</div></div><div class="clear" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"></div><div class="dl-book-buy" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.3rem;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 5px;">Buy the book now at:</div><a class="fusion-no-lightbox" href="https://www.villagebooks.com/book/978-0999804834" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #044e93; padding-right: 20px; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; 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transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Author's Website</a></div></div><div class="clear" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div itemprop="review" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Review" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="reviewer" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="value-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="W. Kendall"></span></span><span class="dtreviewed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="value-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="2020-07-17"></span></span><span itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><div class="description" itemprop="reviewBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-fusion-200 wp-image-22387" height="240" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" src="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/firstplace-paranormal-200x240.png" srcset="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/firstplace-paranormal-125x150.png 125w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/firstplace-paranormal-200x240.png 200w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/firstplace-paranormal-250x300.png 250w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/firstplace-paranormal.png 273w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" width="200" />It’s as if a large chunk of her heart was wrenched away in an instant. Celia’s twin sister died suddenly in a terrible accident. Now Celia is haunted by this dear sister who is gone forever. Moreover, the emotional distance between herself and her parents, the only family that’s left behind, is painful. From her hell on earth, she yearns for her own, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Celia’s Heaven</em>, where all could be right again. But the road to Heaven is paved with broken promises and a shattering revelation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;">Celia leads an unsatisfying life. The residents in her town are repulsed by her because she works as a stripper. Her father berates her for her life choices. She gets it, but she makes good money, and money is hard to turn down. Although Celia’s boyfriend asks her to marry him, she still likes to be with other men and acts on her impulses. Amid the emotional chaos, Celia continues to look for a miracle. The only thing on the horizon, however, is the worst winter snowstorm in years, and it could be deadly.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;">On the anniversary of her twin’s death, Celia reminisces about the times the two shared together. But something weird is happening, she is seeing glimpses of her twin – even hearing messages from her. What is she trying to say? Is there some warning to communicate? Or is it some secret she needs Celia to know? Her sister’s spirit is restless, and Celia is trying to understand and help. Perhaps by helping her sister, she will be helping herself as well.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;">Nancy Canyon’s beautifully written story has a smooth, crisp, surface tone with an underlying, pulsing energy. Fascinating, conflicted characters will grab any reader’s interest right from the start. Even the dialogue is masterful for what is said and what is left unsaid. All in all, Canyon shines at painting detailed, intense character portraits that spring to life and find their way right into the heart of the reader. Each character struggles to reconcile the choices they’ve made that affect them and those around them. But now they face fears about what is to come. The powerful writing takes the reader into the intimate journeys of Celia, her boyfriend, and others including her sister. These are women and men who live in quiet desperation, and thoughtfulness, praying for a better life and hoping to survive.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;">Set against a backdrop of a nightmarish snowstorm, Canyon’s characters are put to the test, trying to survive the current situation that seems to have supernatural strength and the emotional turmoil they each face. Is peace a possibility? Is happiness and love too much to hope for? Celia’s twin may know something that will change lives forever if only Celia discovers the key to unlock her message.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Celia’s Heaven</em> won First in Category in the CIBAs 2013 PARANORMAL Awards.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-23700 aligncenter" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star-300x300.jpg" srcset="https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star-66x66.jpg 66w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star-200x200.jpg 200w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.chantireviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5star.jpg 500w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" width="300" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.6em 0px;">By W. Kendall</p></div></div>Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-88425035607825075832020-07-07T12:55:00.001-07:002021-06-06T17:07:42.167-07:00Celia's Heaven: A Novel by Nancy Canyon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">My novel, </span><i>Celia's Heaven,</i> is now
available at bookstores near you. This is a family saga about Celia Monroe and
her twin, Star Monroe. They live in a small town in Washington state, Vinegar
Valley, where their preacher father has great influence over the community. He
isn't supportive of Celia, as he looks down on her profession: exotic dancer,
and lets his congregation know that she is a dark smudge on his sense of purity
and on their family history. <span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The Monroe
family is known for their miraculous healings, though Star Monroe does not resurrect
from a drowning accident; however, she does come back from the dead to help
Celia remember</span> the bad thing
that happened to her as a child. When her daddy moves in with her during a
terrible winter storm, things begin to change between Celia and her daddy.</div>
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Canyon lures us into a world more luminous than our everyday lives. She gently
allows us to see beyond the veil that separates body from spirit, and we follow
her willingly wherever she will take us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of <i>An Earlier Life</i>, winner of the Washington State Book Award for
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For more about <i>Celia's Heaven</i>, see www.nancycanyon.com and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">amazon.com/author/nancycanyon</span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-81327248812918530112018-04-18T08:01:00.000-07:002018-04-18T08:01:15.958-07:00Day 18 NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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spring
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Tommy
blew a hole in his hand and yes it was with a firecracker and yes Grandma had warned
him and everyone else in charge especially Dad the biggest kid of all should know not
to set them off as they were illegal and dangerous grandma said and twisted her
hands in her apron and we all looked on watching because that is how you learn
from the parents and family members what to do with your power who does
as someone else says in this family, and grandma drawing out dad’s proper name,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Richaaard</i> and dad looking sheepish
and there we went single file to the night yard each with a sparkler in our hand of
course the sparkler is safe but the firecracker the one that pops so loud and
so close to your ears it does damage as does the cherry bomb brother set off in
the fireplace as a joke blowing the screen right off the bricks and dad’s
temper right out the top of his head.<o:p></o:p></div>
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to dress
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high crease,
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bends to
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shade
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sound of a truck, a plane<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
freight train once when the wind hit 90<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>miles
per hour is high<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and so
the birds fly willy-nilly on gusting currents<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meanwhile a solar wind blows
down through the atmosphere<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>clocking
our hearts at a sensational speed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their
rhythm and our minds race<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sleep evades us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the rustling whistling wind alters
trajectory <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is always ringing bells and busting
heads<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fast around corners<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>birds sit tight<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your fellow has fallen <o:p></o:p></div>
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My repeating dream is of a wobbly
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about a room, tipping teacups and
saucers toward the floor but like a flying carpet, lift into the air swirl
around. All this is orchestrated by a magician with black eyes, laughing as he twirls
sideways past you. The dream dictionary explains the tipping table as a symbol
of loss of control and flying teacups: a need for retreat, as all good warriors
do. It’s like lining up before a firing
squad, teacups flying toward you, breaking against the brick wall behind. Then
we come to the magician, the man wearing dark clothing and white gloves. The
gleam in his eyes makes<o:p></o:p></div>
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your breathe catch as you struggle to
wake: trickery <o:p></o:p></div>
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the dictionary says, beware of this fellow.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Day Eleven</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Mama’s intention was to have more children, maybe
at first just to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">replace the baby boy who died, and then with a new
boy, the need for <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">a girl came to light. I’ve always wanted one of
each, she said, and then <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I came along, A fast child wanting to pop out in
the backseat of the yellow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">cab that Mama and I took to the hospital. And
Daddy, she told me later, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">wasn’t in that cab, nor did he give us a ride in
his Silver Eagle, because he <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">was on the road, the driver of a big rig that I
have no recollection of, but <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">in my made-up story, I see it parked outside the
house and Mama climbing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">a little ladder because the cab sat far off the
ground. Up and in she and her</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">big belly went </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">and off to the hospital, Daddy honking that big
semi horn </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">all the way there. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">With an adventure like that, there was no need to start</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">life in the back of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">a cab. I wanted anyway, to make my mother happy, so I </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">waited. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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Day Twelve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The mountains
are bare, like they’ve forgotten<o:p></o:p></div>
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to dress this
morning, the flesh in a<o:p></o:p></div>
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high crease,
folding seductively, the waist<o:p></o:p></div>
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bends to
wrinkle and crease where <o:p></o:p></div>
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shade becomes
prominent, brush growing <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
in damp
areas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First one brown hill, then <o:p></o:p></div>
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another devoid of trees<o:p></o:p></div>
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Waxed smooth each morning<o:p></o:p></div>
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Day Thirteen</div>
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Two Birds Fly, One Hits the Window<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are in a
wind<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a big blow<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>knocking furniture<o:p></o:p></div>
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across the back
porch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sky gray-black <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sound of a truck, a plane<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a freight train once when the wind hit 90<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>miles per hour is high<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and so the birds fly willy-nilly on gusting
currents<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meanwhile a solar wind blows down through
the atmosphere<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>clocking our hearts at a
sensational speed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their rhythm and our
minds race<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sleep evades us <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the rustling whistling wind alters
trajectory <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is always ringing bells and busting
heads<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> moving </span>fast around corners<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I say </span>birds sit tight<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your fellow has fallen <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Photograph<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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After Stanley Kunitz<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no
photo of me with Father<o:p></o:p></div>
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as mother
tore him<o:p></o:p></div>
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from our days<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
while still young,<o:p></o:p></div>
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driving my
brother and me across<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
county, leaving
behind our home.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
She hide him
in the closet<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
like she did
her children,<o:p></o:p></div>
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never reminding
brother<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and me of the
dad we’d forgotten.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I
solved the riddle
in high school, sitting</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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across the
table with my burning question—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why is my
stepbrother younger<o:p></o:p></div>
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than my brother?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Mother told me that step-father<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
(a regular visitor
to my bedroom<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
while she was
away)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
wasn’t my
father.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To this day,
I see her rouged<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
lips mouthing, I
thought you knew,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and feel a
flush burning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p> Daily poems written from prompts for </o:p>April poetry month.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I am a
fool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I like that role and maybe<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I don’t. It
definitely generates good laughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
for myself.
Once Dad fooled me by fibbing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
my forty-something
sister was pregnant with <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
her fourth
child. He said, “She’s embarrassed<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
to tell
you.” I kept saying, “No, impossible. Oh man,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
you’re
kidding, right? What will she do?” “April Fools.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Then there
was the time my friend told me <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
about a
terrible parent she counseled who only <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
fed her
child Goldfish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagined filleting
tiny orange<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
fish and
frying them in a pan. Or maybe she ate them <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
whole,
dropping wiggling fish into her mouth like <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
in the
cartoons. There you have it, my gullibility. It’s not<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
a bad thing
being a fool, but it’s humiliating.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">M</span></span></span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">annerism</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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She’s
foolish, you can see it in the way she dresses,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
forgetting
her age and her status. A woman of 60 <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
should be
demure, short haired, graying, and sedate<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
of dress:
not so robust and youthful a walk nor a hunger<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
for the
bedroom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She laughs loudly and without
constraint—<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and she
points: remember, it’s against<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss
Manner’s <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
rule, the
way she eats with gusto instead of dainty bites<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
She’s
foolish! She’ll never land a man acting that way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
April 3:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
New Crayola
Colors<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
There’s Dill
Pickle green and Mud Puddle brown; there’s<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Linoleum gray
and Scuff Mark orange. There’s<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
the purple
of a blueberry stain and red wine left<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
on a beige
table cloth—French’s yellow, Nosebleed red, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Wilted
Hydrangea white. There’s the blue shadows <o:p></o:p></div>
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under eyes
and Kinky Black mascara; Dog Gum pink, <o:p></o:p></div>
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and Grass
Stain green. There’s Plumber’s Grease gray<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Gangling
Cyst red-orange—Faint white<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Snow
Dirt Charcoal. There’s the blue of a pulsing<o:p></o:p></div>
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vein and Under
Fingernail taupe; Tangerine Rind<o:p></o:p></div>
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yellow-orange,
and Sundown lime; There’s Dry Skin<o:p></o:p></div>
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beige and
Melted Chocolate dun. Brain gray.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New Fridge Delivered Today<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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On lines from Charles Wright<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
have nothing to say about the mess <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">left in dark spaces. Or why I live near the edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">of decomposition.
The edge of growing mold and black liquid, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">a continent where penicillin runs rampant. Counsel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">my inner
maid to recycle and scour often. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
have nothing to say about the pile of dishes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">in the
sink nor the vanity of immaculate housekeeping. I have <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">nothing
to say about women with honorable cleaning skills. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">All
year I work like a bird breaking up the dirt in a flower pot, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">not
hungry, not pure of heart, just trying. All year as my new husband, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">sweet
and patient, moves old food from the back to the dark <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">garbage outside. What true advice godliness gives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">68 could be good, it could
be bad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve learned that happiness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is made by being precisely
in the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not late, not overly early,
but gratefully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">completing transitions on
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Photos of younger women,
pretty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">girls living with gusto,
are no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">longer relevant. This time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of my life isn’t based on the
importance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of results, it is for
slowing activity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eliminating ego, striving less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One version of being a
senior is of a doddering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">old woman. Not me, though I
pledge to no longer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">be so convenient to others. I might appear grouchy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time spent in public, well,
it’ll be by choice—blatant <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ignoring may happen. Just
look at history of old age. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More women than men
shuffling about out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Women take over. We’re
converted to the head <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of our families. Our personal
temperaments demand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">respect. Matriarchs awakening
to importance, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but at the same time to
caring for less. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">really a relief; it is exquisite
to age, to take on the pride<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of tomorrow and tomorrow, again and again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-58536017564193824512017-04-30T10:14:00.001-07:002017-04-30T10:15:51.562-07:00Repetition: Day 30 NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Men
say again and again how <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">their
sons were born…or how</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">the wife threatened them when</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">she was pregnant…or
how </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">poor </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">they were in collage,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">so
they ate huge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">meals on the weekends </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">with
their </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">mothers to tie them over. Men</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">repeat
these stories and women </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">say, Yes,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
know, you’ve already </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">told me that. Once </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">a
man shouted, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Well, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’ll telling you again. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Another </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
we don’t repeat these we’ll have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">nothing
to say. So women should say,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-39584447644613710322017-04-29T08:58:00.000-07:002017-04-29T08:58:24.368-07:00Mirror: Day 29, NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in our faces. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once a friend </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">saw </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">someone
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">its image </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">replacing his face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">shrugged,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">saying
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe he was </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">messing </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">with
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">as he did like to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">make me </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">feel </span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-31363429354920413342017-04-28T08:47:00.000-07:002017-04-28T08:47:32.700-07:00Sid's Amour: Day 28 NaPoWriMo, Dipodic Verse <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">not quit nabbing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-1836893465704359462017-04-27T08:08:00.001-07:002017-04-28T08:48:39.315-07:00To Your Kisses: Day 27, Napowrimo...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The evening we first kissed flew my thoughts into the sky, though my body
stayed alert, saying yes and yes, and yes to you. We sat on the davenport,
kissing like weedy teenagers barely sated by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>smorgasbord. It was easy to fall for those smooth<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>vermilion borders, the light brush
of soft whiskers against my chin, your warm golden scent. Still, you
repeat the story, how I said:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>I
think we should kiss</i>. And we did for over an hour. Your flavor lingers like
rustic bread, crusty, yeasty, salty; notes sweet on the back of my tongue that
night and still. Now I know how much the granary of your love quenches my
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-44949785772653948802017-04-26T14:01:00.001-07:002017-04-26T14:08:52.920-07:00Beneath the Sea: NaPoWriMo Day 26--write about what the archaeologist might find in the future.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-71313319879470484872017-04-25T09:29:00.001-07:002017-04-25T09:31:52.801-07:00Treasure Box: NaPoWriMo, Day 25, Write about the inside of a space<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
can’t be torn like this pulled between the love of my life and a high
and mighty father he does things he shouldn’t his rulership is final I’m moving out in the box go pictures I’ve drawn a few notes Jack sent very few actually as he’s dyslexic letters from my first boyfriend, Bill who moved to
Alaska letters
from Kiko Matsuaka and Dorolthy Foo, Asian pen pals a stack from Mike Ralf, my brother’s Marine
buddy we’ve written each other for two years. airmail envelops stamped Viet Nam I built the box from scrap wood I found in the
basement dad followed me around, watching he
said the box wasn’t square I didn’t answer him, just kept building I lined
it with black velvet a special place
for my keepsakes the outside is painted
green glued along
the top edge, ornate gold trim a safe place to keep my treasures it'll sit in the closet of my new apartment,
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-81558395068476537302017-04-24T16:56:00.005-07:002017-04-24T16:58:39.850-07:00The Hooting Stops Day 24 NaPoWriMo Eckphrastic over Medieval Marginalia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">hear its call. The cat and owl have similar hearing, up to 7kHz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-37866714248369162842017-04-22T17:25:00.001-07:002017-04-22T17:27:10.657-07:00Instructions For Desert Dwellers Day 22 NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-51534399728494907042017-04-19T11:11:00.002-07:002017-04-19T11:11:45.091-07:00Before You Were NaPoWriMo Day 19 Creation Myth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-68095356550795787552017-04-18T07:35:00.001-07:002017-04-18T07:35:17.787-07:00RAINPOUR Day 18 NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-74922480248820683542017-04-17T10:26:00.002-07:002017-04-17T10:26:45.417-07:00Nocturne NaPoWritMo Day 17 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">void and see the dream</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. I did and it left me dancing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Goodbye old friend, nice to see you</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. It’s my night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-49555438930391797622017-04-17T10:23:00.000-07:002017-04-17T10:23:16.119-07:00Day 16 NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Your strips are nice as is your honey,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-71383607972883741102017-04-17T10:18:00.002-07:002017-04-17T10:30:41.614-07:00Day 15 NaPoWriMo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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like a rain cloud, I’m dark my family has never wanted me I act happy, engaging, still I grow blacker like the charred ground
after a wild fire like the black edge
of a dead tooth the advice I get is to just be happy to
turn the corner of my mouth up slightly still onyx clouds build on the horizon where the lightning bolt slices
through, its blackest still down the
street, a man stabbed his roommate to death, they where disagreeing over the
rent they’d been eating chili
and drinking beer before the fist pummeling and then a knife my hands are sore more often than
not I look online for answers,
pummeling isn’t one of them I am the
average age for dying my age adds up to twelve and reduces to three the mother and mine was also sad I
lie in bed at night and feel the weight of my sadness like sculpture stone I
remain loyal to my family even now the
forsythia is in bloom there’s a beetle
on the molding in the bedroom I’m
not as sad as others, I guess I’ve never
tried to kill myself never
collected pills just in case I decided too do the deed still my sadness disables me and I
search for solace I call it
intolerable predatory like
a savage beast the sadness has
followed me my entire life like a
long black shadow a shadow shaped like my
form only skinnier even on cloudy days when the light is
faint its there its teeth bared bite more than once always
an open wound beast returns i ignored<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy Canyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06444345013640871049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143359677050824027.post-23185450099354209362017-04-14T21:43:00.003-07:002017-04-14T21:43:57.056-07:00What He Said NaPoWriMo Clerihew Day 14<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr.
Trump, the President<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="background: white; font-weight: normal;">Says “Mexico’s not sending its
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And
about that wall</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">“I’ll
build the best of all.”</span></div>
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